Usually means: Change and adapt through time.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. evolve: Merriam-Webster
  2. evolve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. evolve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. evolve: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Evolve, evolve: Wordnik
  6. evolve: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. evolve: Wiktionary
  8. evolve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. evolve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. evolve: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. evolve: Dictionary.com
  12. evolve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. evolve: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Evolve (Ani DiFranco album), Evolve (Coldrain album), Evolve (EP), Evolve (Endo album), Evolve (Imagine Dragons album), Evolve (TV series), Evolve (professional wrestling), Evolve (video game), Evolve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Evolve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. evolve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. evolve: Rhymezone
  18. evolve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. evolve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. evolve: FreeDictionary.org
  21. evolve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. evolve: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. evolve: Vocabulary.com
  24. evolve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. evolve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evolve: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evolve: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evolve: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. evolve: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See evolvable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To move (something) in regular procession through a system.
verb:  To change or transform (something).
verb:  To cause (something) to come into being or develop.
verb:  (biology)
verb:  Of a population: to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution.
verb:  (chiefly passive voice) To cause (a population, a species, etc.) to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
verb:  (chemistry) To give off (a gas such as carbon dioxide or oxygen) during a chemical reaction.
verb:  (obsolete) To wind or unwind (something).
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To move in regular procession through a system.
verb:  To change, to transform.
verb:  (biology) Of a trait; to develop within a population through biological evolution.

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