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

(disengag)

(ambitransitive) To release or loosen from something that binds, holds, entangles, or interlocks; unfasten; detach; disentangle; free.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , Disengaging myself then from his embrace, I made him sensible of the reasons there were for his present leaving me; on which, though reluctantly, he put on his cloaths with as little expedition, however, as he could help, wantonly interrupting himself, between whiles, with kisses, touches and embraces I could not refuse myself to. }}

* 1982 , Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe, and Everything

Ford still had his hand stuck out. Arthur looked at it with incomprehension.
"Shake," prompted Ford.
Arthur did, nervously at first, as if it might turn out to be a fish. Then he grasped it vigorously with both hands in an overwhelming flood of relief. He shook it and shook it.
After a while Ford found it necessary to disengage .