develop
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
create, elaborate, or advance something over time through iterative work
Framework senses
- §1
- To create or produce.; bring into activity; generate.
- §1
- To create or produce.; bring into activity; generate.
- §1
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- §2
- happen
- §3
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded
- §4
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
- §5
- become technologically advanced
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- grow emotionally or mature
- §7
- gain through experience
- §8
- create by training and teaching
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- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
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- move into a strategically more advantageous position
- §11
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
- §12
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
- §13
- generate gradually
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- work out
- §15
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
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- make visible by means of chemical solutions
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- come into existence
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- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- §19
- change the use of and make available or usable
- §20
- expand in the form of a series
- §21
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment