develop synonyms

develop

v.

  1. To improve

    enlarge, expand, strengthen, extend, promote, advance, improve, exploit, realize, magnify, build up, augment, refine, enrich, cultivate, generate, beautify, elaborate, polish, finish, perfect, deepen, lengthen, heighten, widen, intensify, fix up, shape up*; see also grow 1, improve 1, promote 1, strengthen.

    Antonyms damage*, reduce*, stifle. *

  2. To grow

    mature, evolve, advance, progress; see grow 2.

  3. To reveal slowly

    unfold, disclose, exhibit, unravel, disentangle, uncover, make known, explain, unwind, unroll, explicate, produce, detail, tell, state, recount, unfurl, untwist, uncoil, untwine, account for, give account of, bring out; see also narrate, reveal 1.

    Antonyms hide*, conceal*, blurt out. *

  4. To work out

    enlarge upon, expatiate, elaborate, fill out, fill in, amplify, evolve, explicate, expand upon, go into detail, build on; see also explain, increase 1.

    Antonyms decrease*, summarize*, abridge. *

  5. To come into being

    emerge, originate, occur; see begin 2, happen 2.

  6. To come to have

    acquire, manifest, incur, contract; see catch 4, form 4, receive 1.

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