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

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

Verb

(en verb)

To become wide or wider.

His eyes widened as her negligee fell to the floor.

To make wide or wider.

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To let out clothes to a larger size.

She widened his trousers for him.

To broaden or extend in scope or range.

The police widened their enquiries.