evolve

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To develop or achieve gradually: evolve a style of one's own.
2. v. To work (something) out; devise: "the schemes he evolved to line his purse” ( S.J. Perelman).
3. v. Biology To develop (a characteristic) by evolutionary processes.
4. v. To give off; emit.
5. v. To undergo gradual change; develop: an amateur acting group that evolved into a theatrical company.
6. v. Biology To develop or arise through evolutionary processes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To unfold; open and expand.
2. To unfold or develop by a process of natural, consecutive, or logical growth from, or as if from, a germ, latent state, or plan.
3. To unfold by elaboration; work out; bring forth or make manifest by action of any kind: as, to evolve a drama from an anecdote; to evolve the truth from a mass of confused evidence; to evolve bad odors by stirring a muck-heap.
4. To open or disclose itself; become developed.
5. In chem., geol., etc., to give off or make manifest by separation from a mixture or a compound: most commonly used of a gas or vapor: as hydrochloric-acid gas evolved from a mixture of common salt and sulphuric acid.
6. In mathematics, to extract (roots).

Wiktionary

1. v. To move in regular procession through a system.
2. v. To develop.
3. v. biology Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To unfold or unroll; to open and expand; to disentangle and exhibit clearly and satisfactorily; to develop; to derive; to educe.
2. v. To throw out; to emit.
3. v. To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through a process of evolution.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. work out
2. v. gain through experience
3. v. undergo development or evolution