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develop

v.

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.
To grow
mature, evolve, advance, progress; see grow 2.
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.
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.
To come into being
emerge, originate, occur; see begin 2, happen 2.
To come to have
acquire, manifest, incur, contract; see catch 4, form 4, receive 1.

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Another word for develop

verb

To bring or come to full development:
age, grow, maturate, mature, mellow, ripen. See youth
To bring (a product or idea, for example) into being:
generate, produce. See kin
To take place:
befall, betide, come, come about, come off, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire. Idiom: come to pass. See happen
To be disclosed gradually:
evolve, unfold. See show
To express at greater length or in greater detail:
amplify, dilate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, labor. See explain
To disclose bit by bit:
elaborate, evolve. Idioms: fill in the details, go into detail. See show
To come gradually to have:
acquire, form. See get
To achieve an increase of gradually:
build up, gain. See increase
To become affected with a disease:
catch, contract, get, sicken, take. Idiom: come down with. See get