- to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.
- to give off or emit, as odors or vapors.
- to come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution: The whole idea evolved from a casual remark.
- to gradually change one's opinions or beliefs: candidates who are still evolving on the issue;an evolved feminist mom.
- to develop by a process of evolution to a different adaptive state or condition: The human species evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.
- to develop or cause to develop gradually
- (of animal or plant species) to undergo evolution
- to yield, emit, or give off (heat, gas, vapour, etc)