Devolve

Word DEVOLVE
Character 7
Hyphenation de volve
Pronunciations /dɪˈvɒɫv/

Definitions and meanings of "Devolve"

What do we mean by devolve?

To pass on or delegate to another. intransitive verb

To cause to roll onward or downward. intransitive verb

To be passed on or transferred to another. intransitive verb

To degenerate or deteriorate gradually. intransitive verb

To roll onward or downward. intransitive verb

To roll downward or onward.

To transfer, as from one person to another; turn over; transmit.

To roll down; come or arrive by rolling down or onward.

To be transferred or transmitted; pass from one to another; fall by succession or transference.

To degenerate.

To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into. intransitive verb

To roll onward or downward; to pass on. transitive verb

To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into. transitive verb

To delegate something to someone else verb

To be inherited by someone; to come into the hands of verb

To slowly degrade verb

Grow worse verb

Be inherited by verb

Pass on or delegate to another verb

To roll (something) down; to unroll.

To be inherited by someone else; to pass down upon the next person in a succession, especially through failure or loss of an earlier holder.

To delegate (a responsibility, duty, etc.) on or upon someone.

To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.

To degenerate; to break down.

Th opposite of evolve. Urban Dictionary

It’s evolving but backwards Urban Dictionary

Descriptive term for something that is bad in an evolutionary sense. Derives from the term devolution Can be shortend to "devo". Devolved can be used postively or negatively. Positive use of "devolved" refers to something that is bad in a good manner, e.g. B-Movies, flash animations, art. Negative use of "devolved" refers to things that illustrate negative aspects of devolution, e.g. political and social discussions. Coined by the band Devo. Urban Dictionary

When yo girl break up with you, and you still depressed over her. Urban Dictionary

Those who have labored as far as they can in the Evolutionary Process and choose Extinction over procreation. Believing the World will be better off without their children. Generally found among the children of the affluent, Devolvers see no hope for the Future therefore they choose to deny the future the only hope it has, our children. Urban Dictionary

Some people would like to see everyone else devolve alone, as long as it isn't them, but if they start to devolve too, they want everyone to devolve together, since together is the way they like to do everything (as they hate being alone and will say anything to keep lots of people around them at all times). Urban Dictionary

International Devolve Day, on the first of February, you must act like a monkey. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Devolve

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The word "devolve" in example sentences

He didn't use the word devolve'' and he's coming off a heroic performance in Detroit, but that's the deal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Will a new McCarthyism devolve from the current "Tea-Party" movement that exists only to attempt to deny the fact that Barack Obama is in fact a United States Citizen and has legitimately been elected President of all Americans? ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I don't mean to have this call devolve into a 'relationship' call," Davis said, before leading the pack of journalists down precisely that trail -- bringing up (and distorting) Obama's description of Bill Ayers as "just one of my friends in the neighborhood." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Learn from it and never again devolve into this shameful mockery of justice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"I don't mean to have this call devolve into a 'relationship' call," Davis said, before leading the pack of journalists down precisely that trail -- bringing up and distorting Obama's description of Bill Ayers as "just one of my friends in the neighborhood." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2008)

But it is not our ambition to devolve from the centre those resources and responsibilities necessary to protect and advance our nationwide economy. ❋ Unknown (1979)

But clearly Internet needs to "devolve" to a human scale since it is not just going away. ❋ Judy Shapiro (2010)

You know, we've seen instances of people, you know, handing out food or handing out bottles of water, and all of a sudden, it can very quickly kind of devolve into something else. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And I was really happy that you see her kind of devolve into her own chaos and struggle with this choice. ❋ Unknown (2002)

The Absolute deliberately created high forms of life, arch-angels, and higher than these -- gods in fact -- and then caused them to "devolve" until the lowest state was reached. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

What seems juvenile to me is when people refuse to review evidence presented right in front of their eyes and then "devolve" into tossing shoutable slogans like ❋ A_picazo (2010)

There is not enough of the safer and less prolific kind of assets to accommodate all who want to "devolve". ❋ Unknown (2009)

It seemed inevitable that Murdoch's properties would "devolve" to the standard ad-supported free content model that reigns on the Internet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What exactly is it that allows for some minority of American-Jews, especially the Neocons, to disdain the very idea of democracy, while promoting deceit of the masses, and working for goals the basically ruin the American experiment, if it seems to benefit Israel, so that we can "devolve" back to a right-wing notion of fascism and criminality that now seems to dominate in this culture? ❋ Unknown (2009)

i think the mental excersise here might be to "devolve" the online presence so that you can accomplish more with something as ❋ Unknown (2010)

Soon Carson's story will devolve into saying that throwback59 ❋ Unknown (2010)

It will always devolve into a drunken spending binge largely directed toward rewarding political friends like public-sector unions (witness the current mayhem in Wisconsin), engaging in social engineering (see the new health-care mandates), socializing losses (emergency loans and grants to failing businesses), and doling out pork (look almost anywhere in the stimulus). ❋ Arthur C. Brooks (2011)

Others fear a replay of 2001, when King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa pledged to devolve power into a constitutional monarchy but pulled back a year later, leaving control in the hands of the ruling family. ❋ Joe Parkinson (2011)

[The Bush] family will [surely] [continue] to devolve. ❋ Adrian (2007)

[Pewdiepie]: “it’s [evolving] but backwards” Devolve but with extra [steps] ❋ Life Is The Answer To Death (2020)

This [book] is devolved. ❋ Rich Anderson (2003)

"Stop [devolving] over [yo Ex]. It's been over 2 months. Get a [new girl]." ❋ New_waulk (2018)

He had everything a young man could want, but [felt nothing], he had gone to the finest schools ,but knew nothing. His family loved him but he didn't know why, he had a [GPS] [on the dash] of his Porsche but he was lost. How could he bring a child into this world? It would be so irresponsible of him and Responsibility is what he had successfully avoided his entire, short, Life, he was a Devolver, and his girl friend felt the same way. ❋ Freecoyote.com (2009)

Martin Luther King would have been as entertained if everyone devolved together, bound for something like [Squid Games] and both psychological and physical standoffs that escalated into their final stupidity as he would have been by brotherhood/sisterhood. The [leadership not brotherhood/sisterhood] folks can't wait for us all to [devolve together], it's just good fun in their minds, those adrenaline junkies that they are! ❋ The Original Agahnim (2022)

"Tom started acting like a [monkey], little did I [know it] was [devolve] Day." International [Devolve] Day - A day where you MUST act like a monkey. ❋ Crapposter (2022)

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