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verb
  1. 1
    if people, animals, or plants develop, they change or grow as they get older

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

    To become different: change, turn into, become, alter, convert, change into, diversify, shift, tend, go into... more
    1. a.
      to grow something

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To make something start to exist or happen: catalyze, bring about, start off, create, trigger, form, inaugurate, invent, set off, make... more
  4. 4
    to change as events or conditions change, especially to become more serious

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

    To become different: change, turn into, become, alter, convert, change into, diversify, shift, tend, go into... more
  5. 5
    to begin to be affected by a disease or medical condition

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

    To have or develop an illness or symptom: suffer, get, contract, come down with, develop, catch, have, afflict, go down with, invade... more
    1. a.
      to begin to appear as part of an illness or medical condition

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To cause someone to have an illness or feel ill: cause, give, pass on, infect, spread, go around, communicate, carry, transmit, develop... more
    2. b.
      to begin to have something such as a feeling, habit, interest, or relationship

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To have a particular quality or thing: seem, tend, possess, wear, have, bear, rate, grow in, bristle with... more
    3. c.
      to start to exist, or to start to be noticeable

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To start to exist or happen: start, begin, arise, arrive, originate, develop, commence, set in, come into being, fall/fit into place... more
    4. d.
      to begin to have a problem or difficulty

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To have a particular quality or thing: seem, tend, possess, wear, have, bear, rate, grow in, bristle with... more
    5. e.
      to begin to be a problem or cause difficulties

      *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

      To cause problems for someone or something: let down, hold back, embarrass, inhibit, burden, plague, bring up against, disadvantage, throttle, count against... more
  9. 9
    to treat a film with chemicals in order to make photographs

    *American English synonyms or related words for this sense of develop*

    To take and develop photographs: blow up, capture, come out, compose, develop, expose, fix, focus, pap, photograph... more

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