develop - Similar and Opposite Words

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Verb

come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

Synonyms

• acquire
• develop
• get
• grow
• produce

More generic

• change

More specific

• cut
• feather
• fledge
• get up
• leaf
• pod
• pupate
• regrow
• spring
• sprout
• stock
• stool
• teethe
• tiller
• work up

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• acquire
• develop
• evolve

Verb

change the use of and make available or usable

Synonyms

• build up
• develop

More generic

• ameliorate
• amend
• better
• improve
• meliorate

More specific

• redevelop
• settle

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• develop
• educate
• make grow
• modernise
• modernize
• prepare
• train

Verb

expand in the form of a series

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• expand

Verb

grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• grow

More specific

• adolesce
• advance
• age
• bloom
• blossom
• blossom forth
• blossom out
• bud
• build
• build up
• come along
• come on
• dedifferentiate
• differentiate
• evolve
• flower
• get along
• get on
• grow
• incubate
• maturate
• mature
• progress
• senesce
• shape up
• spike
• spike out
• unfold
• work up

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• develop

Verb

cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development

Synonyms

• develop
• make grow

More generic

• alter
• change
• modify

More specific

• check
• condition
• discipline
• elaborate
• foliate
• grow
• train
• work out
• work up

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• develop
• grow

Related

• build up
• develop

Verb

happen

Synonyms

• break
• develop
• recrudesce

More generic

• come about
• fall out
• go on
• hap
• happen
• occur
• pass
• pass off
• take place

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• develop

Verb

be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• come about
• fall out
• go on
• hap
• happen
• occur
• pass
• pass off
• take place

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• arise
• break
• develop
• grow
• originate
• recrudesce
• rise
• spring up
• uprise

Verb

elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• complicate
• elaborate
• rarify
• refine

Related

• acquire
• develop
• evolve
• explicate
• formulate

Verb

become technologically advanced

Synonyms

• develop
• modernise
• modernize

More generic

• change

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• build up
• develop

Verb

grow emotionally or mature

Synonyms

• develop
• grow

More generic

• change

More specific

• make
• outgrow

Verb

gain through experience

Synonyms

• acquire
• develop
• evolve

More generic

• change

Related

• acquire
• develop
• explicate
• formulate
• get
• grow
• produce

Verb

create by training and teaching

Synonyms

• develop
• educate
• prepare
• train

More generic

• instruct
• learn
• teach

More specific

• drill
• house-train
• housebreak
• retrain
• toilet-train

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• build up
• develop
• groom
• prepare
• train

Verb

elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses

Synonyms

• develop
• explicate
• formulate

More generic

• conjecture
• hypothecate
• hypothesise
• hypothesize
• speculate
• suppose
• theorise
• theorize

More specific

• mature
• redevelop
• reformulate

Related

• acquire
• develop
• evolve

Verb

move into a strategically more advantageous position

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• play

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• develop

Verb

move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• play

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• develop

Verb

superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• lay over
• superimpose
• superpose

Verb

generate gradually

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• bring forth
• generate

More specific

• make

Related

• acquire
• build up
• develop
• evolve

Verb

work out

Synonyms

• develop
• evolve
• germinate

More generic

• create by mental act
• create mentally

Related

• develop

Verb

make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• create

More specific

• build

Related

• develop
• evolve
• germinate

Verb

make visible by means of chemical solutions

Synonyms

• develop

More generic

• alter
• change
• modify

More specific

• redevelop
• solarise
• solarize
• underdevelop

Verb

come into existence; take on form or shape

Synonyms

• arise
• develop
• grow
• originate
• rise
• spring up
• uprise

More generic

• become

More specific

• come
• come forth
• emerge
• follow
• head
• resurge
• swell
• well up

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• develop

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