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devolve
Overview of verb devolve
The verb devolve has 3 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. devolve -- (pass on or delegate to another; "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital")
2. fall, return, pass, devolve -- (be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead")
3. devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate -- (grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match")
Grep of noun devolve
devolvement
Antonyms of verb devolve
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb devolve
3 senses of devolve
Sense 1
devolve
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
=> appoint, charge
Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
=> change hands, change owners
=> move, displace
Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
=> change state, turn
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb devolve
2 of 3 senses of devolve
Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
=> fall, light
Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade
=> languish, fade
=> waste, rot
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb devolve
3 senses of devolve
Sense 1
devolve
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
=> change hands, change owners
Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
'Cause To' of verb devolve
Derived Forms of verb devolve
1 of 3 senses of devolve
Sense 1
devolve
RELATED TO>(noun) devolvement#1
=> devolution, devolvement
RELATED TO>(noun) devolution#2
=> devolution, devolvement
Domain of verb devolve
Domain Terms of verb devolve
Familiarity of verb devolve
devolve used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Sample Sentences of verb devolve
3 senses of devolve
Sense 1
devolve
*> Somebody ----s something to somebody
Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
*> Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb devolve
3 senses of devolve
Sense 1
devolve
> delegate, designate, depute, assign
=> mandate
=> cast
=> post
=> cast
=> devolve
=> task
=> place
=> regiment
=> transfer, reassign
=> delegate, depute
=> mandate
=> promote, upgrade, advance, kick upstairs, raise, elevate
=> demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs
=> place
Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
> change hands, change owners
=> vest
=> fall, return, pass, devolve
=> accrue, fall
Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
> worsen, decline
=> inflame
=> sicken, come down
=> devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> deprive, impoverish
=> fail
=> tumble
=> slip, drop off, drop away, fall away
=> suffer
=> suffer, lose
=> regress, retrograde, retrogress
=> turn down
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb devolve
Sense 1
devolve
=> delegate, designate, depute, assign
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Sense 2
fall, return, pass, devolve
=> change hands, change owners
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Sense 3
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
=> worsen, decline
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Grep of verb devolve
devolve
devolve on
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