<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to develop gradually: to evolve a scheme.</li><li>to give off or emit, as odors or vapors.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to come forth gradually into being; develop; undergo evolution: The whole idea evolved from a casual remark.</li><li>to gradually change one's opinions or beliefs: candidates who are still evolving on the issue; an evolved feminist mom.</li><li>Biology: to develop by a process of evolution to a different adaptive state or condition: The human species evolved from an ancestor that was probably arboreal.</li></ul>