Verb

To move in regular procession through a system.

* Sir M. Hale

The animal soul sooner evolves itself to its full orb and extent than the human soul.

* (William Whewell) (1794-1866)

The principles which art involves, science alone evolves .

* (w) (1819-1885)

Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.

To change, transform, develop.

* 1939 , , Uncle Fred in the Springtime

You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.

(biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= In the News , passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}

(chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).

Verb

(en verb)

To make better.

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* Shakespeare

Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .

* Sir Walter Scott

We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.

To become better.

(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:

But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .

*, II.2.6.ii:

he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .

To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.