develop
verb
[ dɪˈvɛləp ]
• grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.
• "motion pictures were to develop into mass entertainment"
Similar:
grow,
evolve,
mature,
expand,
enlarge,
spread,
advance,
progress,
prosper,
succeed,
thrive,
get on well,
flourish,
blossom,
bloom,
burgeon,
make headway,
be successful,
go great guns,
initiate,
instigate,
set in motion,
put in place,
institute,
inaugurate,
originate,
invent,
form,
establish,
fashion,
generate,
undertake,
embark on,
• start to exist, experience, or possess.
• "a strange closeness developed"
Similar:
come into being,
come about,
start,
begin,
be born,
come into existence,
appear,
arrive,
come forth,
emerge,
erupt,
burst out,
arise,
originate,
break,
unfold,
crop up,
follow,
happen,
result,
ensue,
break out,
commence,
fall ill with,
be taken ill with,
be struck down with,
be stricken with,
succumb to,
contract,
catch,
get,
pick up,
come down with,
become infected with,
go down with,
take ill with,
take sick with,
• treat (a photographic film) with chemicals to make a visible image.
• "she came to get the film developed"
• bring (a piece) into play from its initial position on a player's back rank.
• "he preferred to develop his bishop on e7"
Origin:
mid 17th century (in the sense ‘unfold, unfurl’): from French développer, based on Latin dis- ‘un-’ + a second element of unknown origin found also in envelop.
