devolve
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
pass on or delegate to another
The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital
Types & categories
- assign hypernym
Related & opposite
- devolvement derivation
Sense 2 verb
be inherited by
The estate fell to my sister
Types & categories
- change hands hypernym
- light hyponym
Related & opposite
- accrue verb group
Sense 3 verb
grow worse
Her condition deteriorated
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- convalesce antonym
- devolution derivation
- worsening derivation
- degeneracy derivation
- deterioration derivation
- degenerative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | devolvement |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | assign |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | accrue |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change hands |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | light |
| 3 | antonym | Related & opposite | convalesce |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | devolution |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | worsening |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | degeneracy |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | deterioration |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | degenerative |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | decline |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fatigue |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | languish |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | rot |