Synonyms for develop

verb

1. To improve

   enlarge, expand, strengthen, extend, promote, advance, improve, exploit, realize, magnify, build up, augment, refine, enrich, cultivate, generate, beautify, elaborate, polish, finish, perfect, deepen, lengthen, heighten, widen, intensify, fix up, shape up*; see also grow 1, improve 1, promote 1, strengthen.

   Antonyms damage*, reduce, stifle.

2. To grow

   mature, evolve, advance, progress; see grow 2.

3. To reveal slowly

   unfold, disclose, exhibit, unravel, disentangle, uncover, make known, explain, unwind, unroll, explicate, produce, detail, tell, state, recount, unfurl, untwist, uncoil, untwine, account for, give account of, bring out; see also narrate, reveal 1.

   Antonyms hide*, conceal, blurt out.

4. To work out

   enlarge upon, expatiate, elaborate, fill out, fill in, amplify, evolve, explicate, expand upon, go into detail, build on; see also explain, increase 1.

   Antonyms decrease*, summarize, abridge.

5. To come into being

   emerge, originate, occur; see begin 2, happen 2.

6. To come to have

   acquire, manifest, incur, contract; see catch 4, form 4, receive 1.