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Verbs (32)

v. generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"

v. make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation; "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique"

develop

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

develop

v. move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly"

develop

v. move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook"

develop

v. expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form"

develop

v. be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";

develop

v. grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time"

develop

v. elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme; "develop the melody and change the key"

develop

v. disclose or reveal (obsolete); "We must develop the enemy soldiers"

develop

v. make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me"

build up, develop

v. change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up"

develop, make grow

v. cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"

explicate, formulate, develop

v. elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"

break, recrudesce, develop

v. happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"

train, develop, prepare, educate

v. create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"

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

v. come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"

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Fuzzynyms (96)

make, create

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

originate

v. begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc.; "The flight originates in Calcutta"

engender, breed, spawn

v. call forth

develop

v. be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";

raise

v. create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"

breed, multiply

v. have young (animals) or reproduce (organisms); "pandas rarely breed in captivity"; "These bacteria reproduce"

result

v. come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting"

initiate, pioneer

v. take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"

engender, breed, spawn

v. call forth

develop

v. generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"

raise

v. create a disturbance, especially by making a great noise; "raise hell"; "raise the roof"; "raise Cain"

ripen

v. grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"

root

v. cause to take roots

rear, raise, bring up, nurture, parent

v. bring up; "raise a family"; "bring up children"

inflate

v. increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

blow up, enlarge, magnify

v. make large; "blow up an image"

extend

v. prolong the time allowed for payment of; "extend the loan"

augment

v. enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"

ferment, work

v. cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"

educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise

v. teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry"

burgeon

v. grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

enlarge

v. become larger or bigger

stretch

v. become longer by being stretched and pulled; "The fabric stretches"

root

v. cause to take roots

boom, thrive, flourish, expand

v. grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming"

inflate

v. increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

magnify, amplify

v. increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

expand

v. make bigger or wider in size, volume, or quantity; "expand the house by adding another wing"

expand, spread out

v. extend in one or more directions; "The dough expands"

swell

v. increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo"

swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce

v. expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling"

spud

v. initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April"

ferment, work

v. cause to undergo fermentation; "We ferment the grapes for a very long time to achieve high alcohol content"; "The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats"

initiate, pioneer

v. take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"

engender, breed, spawn

v. call forth

brief

v. give essential information to someone; "The reporters were briefed about the President's plan to invade"

advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize

v. inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due"

explain, explicate

v. make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"

acquaint

v. inform; "Please acquaint your colleagues of your plans to move"

instruct, apprise, apprize

v. make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?"

infuse

v. introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"

propagandize, propagandise

v. subject to propaganda

temper, season, mollify

v. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"

result

v. come about or follow as a consequence; "nothing will result from this meeting"

stem

v. remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

rise, go up, climb

v. increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up

v. raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"

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Antonyms (2)

reduce

v. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

reduce

v. destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it

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