evolves
- 1Third-person singular simple present of evolve.
Language evolves as new generations coin fresh words and abandon old ones.
The company's strategy evolves every time the market shifts.
Note
The present-tense form that works with or without an object. Language evolves on its own, but the verb can also take a direct object. A population evolves a trait, a reaction evolves oxygen or carbon dioxide, and a planner evolves a scheme. In the chemist's sense of giving off a gas and the biologist's sense of acquiring a trait, the object carries the meaning, so name what is evolved.
Under steady exposure to the drug, the colony evolves resistance within a few dozen generations.
When the acid meets the chalk, the mixture evolves carbon dioxide in a stream of bubbles.
evolves is a form of evolve
evolve, verb: To change or transform, typically through a gradual process over time. Full entry
- Spelling
- evolve → evolves: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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