Word Meanings - EVOLVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale.

Additional info about word: EVOLVE

Etym: 1. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe. The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul. Sir. M. Hale. The principles which art involves, science alone evolves. Whewell. Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above. J. C. Shairp. 2. To throw out; to emit; as, to evolve odors.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EVOLVE)

• Dreed Generate
• procreate
• engender
• propagate
• produce
• beget
• hatch
• nourish
• train
• instruct
• evolve
• cause
• Elicit
• Draw
• evoke
• educe
• eliminate
• enucleate
• express
• extract
• worm

Related words: (words related to EVOLVE)

• ELICITATION
  The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• EVOLVENT
  The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
• DREINTE; DREINT
  p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer.
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DREGGISH
  Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.
• PROCREATE
  To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• DREAR
  Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• DREADNOUGHT
  1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• DREAM
  Dan. & Sw. dröm; cf. G. trügen to deceive, Skr. druh to harm, hurt, try to hurt. AS. dreám joy, gladness, and OS. dr joy are, perh., different words; cf. Gr. 1. The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• DRETCH
  See DRECCHE
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
  Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• ADRENALINE; ADRENALIN
  A crystalline substance, C9H13O3N, obtained from suprarenal extract, of which it is regarded as the active principle. It is used in medicine as a stimulant and hemostatic.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• CADRE
  The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
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