1. (verb)develop make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
2. (verb)evolve, germinate, develop work out Synonyms: rise, spud, burgeon forth, grow, educate, produce, shoot, spring up, sprout, explicate, make grow, develop, acquire, evolve, arise, germinate, break, modernise, train, bourgeon, get, originate, build up, uprise, modernize, recrudesce, formulate, pullulate, prepare
3. (verb)develop, acquire, evolve gain through experience Synonyms: rise, adopt, grow, educate, produce, gain, acquire, modernise, win, explicate, make grow, develop, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, learn, break, train, assume, build up, get, originate, take on, take, larn, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
4. (verb)grow, develop, produce, get, acquire come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) Synonyms: take, arrest, make, mature, mystify, experience, develop, take on, explicate, draw, assume, stupefy, have, arise, become, formulate, learn, receive, larn, scram, prepare, uprise, go, stimulate, sire, drive, engender, fix, pay back, spring up, suffer, sustain, stick, set about, create, bring out, raise, get under one's skin, incur, gain, contract, bring forth, grow, dumbfound, beat, adopt, start, set out, win, rise, buzz off, train, modernize, make grow, originate, bring about, bring, bewilder, mother, induce, modernise, catch, bugger off, obtain, beget, puzzle, flummox, get, generate, turn, find, vex, germinate, baffle, recrudesce, start out, convey, capture, aim, let, perplex, bring on, gravel, fetch, begin, father, amaze, commence, get down, build up, arrive, produce, acquire, come, educate, evolve, maturate, break, pay off, pose, give rise, cause, farm, nonplus
5. (verb)originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow come into existence; take on form or shape Synonyms: turn, start, bristle, mature, rise, get, build up, prepare, stand up, climb up, uprise, maturate, acquire, go up, rebel, surface, lift, arise, spring up, farm, come up, grow, originate, train, evolve, modernize, bob up, resurrect, ascend, initiate, develop, climb, heighten, make grow, break, get up, prove, germinate, move up, turn out, jump, raise, formulate, modernise, rear, produce, mount, rise up, wax, recrudesce, educate, explicate
6. (verb)build up, develop change the use of and make available or usable Synonyms: rise, fortify, grow, educate, produce, progress, modernize, spring up, modernise, explicate, make grow, arm, acquire, evolve, build, germinate, develop, break, train, uprise, build up, get, originate, gird, ramp up, recrudesce, formulate, arise, work up, prepare
7. (verb)explicate, formulate, develop elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, explain, train, acquire, invent, explicate, make grow, develop, excogitate, evolve, arise, germinate, articulate, devise, break, modernise, spring up, phrase, build up, get, originate, give voice, contrive, word, forge, uprise, modernize, recrudesce, formulate, prepare
8. (verb)train, develop, prepare, educate create by training and teaching Synonyms: rail, rise, originate, coach, prepare, get, build up, civilise, cook, fix, develop, uprise, get up, gear up, organize, take, recrudesce, civilize, make, arise, spring up, modernize, grow, take aim, train, evolve, trail, groom, aim, explicate, direct, organise, produce, germinate, ready, set up, school, discipline, modernise, make grow, cultivate, break, condition, formulate, set, machinate, educate, devise, acquire, check
9. (verb)develop be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
10. (verb)develop grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
12. (verb)develop, make grow cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, develop, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
15. (verb)develop make visible by means of chemical solutions Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
16. (verb)develop superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
17. (verb)develop move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
18. (verb)develop move into a strategically more advantageous position Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
19. (verb)develop elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
20. (verb)break, recrudesce, develop happen Synonyms: crack, break away, give way, soften, reveal, modernize, develop, unwrap, conk out, uprise, collapse, die, formulate, transgress, founder, weaken, spring up, discover, snap off, stop, go, demote, break out, separate, split, give away, damp, smash, interrupt, offend, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, divulge, pause, let on, grow, get around, wear out, cave in, prepare, break-dance, rise, break up, check, make grow, give out, break in, give, split up, train, modernise, better, burst, go bad, get, breach, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, germinate, recrudesce, break dance, go against, dampen, originate, break down, explicate, fall in, arise, bump, let out, ruin, fall apart, kick downstairs, part, build up, infract, produce, fail, come apart, bankrupt, acquire, educate, evolve, expose, break, discontinue, intermit, wear
21. (verb)develop expand in the form of a series Synonyms: rise, grow, educate, produce, acquire, modernise, explicate, make grow, formulate, evolve, arise, germinate, break, train, build up, get, originate, uprise, modernize, spring up, recrudesce, prepare
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'develop'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
1. develop Amplify is now rarely used in the sense of increase, to add material substance, bulk, volume, or the like; it is now almost wholly applied to discourse or writing, signifying to make fuller in st Synonyms: amplify, augment, dilate, expand, extend, unfold, develop, enlarge, expatiate, increase, widen Antonyms: abbreviate, amputate, condense, cut down, reduce, summarize, abridge, "boil down, " curtail, epitomize, retrench, sum up
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