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Meaning of devolve


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  devolve
      v 1: pass on or delegate to another; "The representative
           devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the
           hospital"
      2: be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land
         returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that
         everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: {fall}, {return},
         {pass}, {devolve}]
      3: grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the
         slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting
         match" [syn: {devolve}, {deteriorate}, {drop}, {degenerate}]
         [ant: {convalesce}, {recover}, {recuperate}]


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