Develop

Verb

 * 1)  To change with a specific direction, progress.
 * 2)  To progress through a sequence of stages.
 * 3)  To create.
 * 4)  To bring out images latent in photographic film.
 * 5)  To place one's pieces actively.
 * 6)  To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.

Adverbs for Develop
precociously; enormously; advantageously; harmoniously; indirectly; majestically; copiously; riotously; subsequently; perfectly; logically; habitually; unexpectedly; definitely; independently; inordinately; exclusively; rationally; invariably; extraordinarily; tediously; arduously; irrationally; intricately; belatedly; artistically; culturally; muscularly; socially; economically; mentally; physically; deftly; imposingly; continuously; poetically; subsequently; coherently; vindictively; scientifically; progressively; morally; spectacularly; aesthetically; uniquely; deviously; legitimately.

Synonyms for Develop
uncover, unfold, disclose, evolve, mature, grow, cultivate, amplify, enlarge, exhibit, disentangle, unravel, extend.

Antonyms for Develop
repress, shorten, conceal, circumscribe, narrow, hide, compress, lessen, confine.

Thesaurus
nurture, obtain, occur, open, open up, originate, outgrow, overdevelop, overgrow, overtop, pan out, parade, particularize, perfect, perform, perk up, pick up, plan, polish, practice, prepare, present, print, process, procreate, produce, progress, proliferate, promote, prosper, prove, prove to be, puff, puff up, pullulate, pump, pump up, put in tune, put to school, raise, raise the curtain, rarefy, reach, reach manhood, reach twenty-one, reach voting age, ready, realize, rear, refine, rehearse, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, represent, reproduce, result, reveal, ripen, rise, roll out, run up, season, send to school, set forth, settle down, shape up, shoot up, show, show forth, show improvement, show up, skyrocket, snowball, spawn, spotlight, spread, spring up, sprout, sprout up, strengthen, stretch, strike out, strip bare, sufflate, swell, take in hand, take off, temper, terminate, think out, think up, thrive, toga virilis, token, tower, train, transpire, trot out, tumefy, turn out, uncloak, uncover, undrape, unfold, unfurl, unkennel, unmask, unpack, unroll, unscreen, unsheathe, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, up, upshoot, upspear, upspring, upsprout, vegetate, wave, wax, widen, work out, accrue, accumulate, achieve, acquire, actualize, add to, advance, affect, age, aggrandize, ameliorate, amend, amplify, appear, appreciate, apprentice, arise, attain, attain majority, attend, augment, balloon, bare, bear fruit, beautify, become of, befall, beget, begin, betide, betoken, bloat, bloom, blossom, blow up, blueprint, boom, brandish, break, break in, break the seal, breathe, breed, brew, bring forth, bring forward, bring into being, bring into view, bring out, bring to light, bring to notice, bring up, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burgeon, call into being, chance, coin, come, come about, come along, come forth, come of, come of age, come on, come out, come to light, come to maturity, commence, complete, conceive, concoct, condition, contrive, cook up, crescendo, crown, culminate, cultivate, dangle, demonstrate, descant, design, detail, devise, dilate, discipline, disclose, discover, dismask, display, distend, divulge, do to perfection, dramatize, draw the veil, dream up, drill, elaborate, embellish, embody, emerge, enact, end, engender, enlarge, enlarge upon, ensue, establish, eventuate, evidence, evince, evolute, evolve, exercise, exhibit, expand, expatiate, explicate, exploit, expose, expose to view, express, extend, fabricate, fall out, fare, fetch up, fill out, finish, fit, flaunt, fledge, flourish, flower, follow, form, foster, frame, gain, gain ground, gain strength, gather, generate, germinate, get, get ahead, get along, give being to, give rise to, give sign, give token, go ahead, go forward, go up, graduate, greaten, groom, grow, grow better, grow up, happen, hatch, highlight, hike, hike up, house-train, housebreak, huff, hypertrophy, illuminate, impart, improve, improvise, incarnate, increase, indicate, inflate, intensify, invent, issue, lay bare, lay open, leave the nest, let daylight in, let out, lick into shape, look up, magnify, make clear, make do with, make headway, make plain, make progress, make strides, make up, manifest, materialize, maturate, mature, mean, meliorate, mellow, mend, mint, mount, multiply, mushroom, nurse,

Etymology
From développer from  desveloper from  desveloper from des- + voloper, veloper, vloper "to wrap, wrap up" (compare  -viluppare, Old  alternate form goluppare "to wrap") from  base *vlopp-, wlopp- "to wrap" of  origin, ult. from from. Akin to wlappen "to wrap, fold" (Modern English lap "to wrap, involve, fold"),  wrappen "to wrap",  lappen:,  dialectal vravle "to wind, twist",  wrempen "to wrinkle, scrunch, distort", Old English wearp "warp".

Related terms

 * developing
 * development

Translations

 * Bulgarian: развивам се
 * Catalan: desenvolupar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (fāzhǎn)
 * Czech: se
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: disvolvi
 * Finnish:
 * French: se développer
 * German:


 * Hebrew: התפתח
 * Italian:
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: desenvolver
 * Romansch: sviluppar
 * Russian: развиваться, развиться
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: развивам се
 * Catalan: desenvolupar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chéngzhǎng)
 * Czech: se
 * Dutch: zich ontwikkelen,
 * Finnish:
 * French: se développer


 * German: sich entwickeln
 * Hebrew: התפתח
 * Malay: hasil
 * Romansch: sviluppar
 * Russian: развиваться, развиться
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: разработвам
 * Catalan: desenvolupar
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (xíngzhǎng)
 * Czech:
 * Danish: udvikle
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: disvolvigi, evoluigi
 * Finnish:
 * French:, créer


 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Malay: hasil, buat
 * Polish:
 * Romansch: sviluppar
 * Russian: развивать, развить ; разрабатывать , разработать
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: проявявам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: (chōngxǐ)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Greek: εμφανίζω
 * Hebrew: פיתח
 * Italian:
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * French: se développer
 * German:


 * Russian: развивать (razvivát') (imp.)/развить (razvít')
 * Slovene:
 * Swedish: