evolve

1. (transitive)Examples: "The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul"

2. (transitive)Examples: "Over several years the author evolved the story originally drafted as a novella into a real epic."

3. (transitive)Examples: "You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved."; "The interpreter has spent a whole lot of time working the music before the performance, trying to evolve the most accurate translation possible."; "[…]I ask you, rather, to evolve a suitable plan with due deliberation and report it to me."¹⁴"

4. (transitive)Examples: "How long ago did birds evolve beaks?"; "Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy."

5. (transitive)Examples: "A hundred thousand years from now, will Homo sapiens have evolved into beings unrecognizable to their ancestors?"; "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."; "The ice age was nearly two million years old by the time the woolly mammoth evolved."

6. (transitive)Examples: "to evolve odours"