Usually means: Grow or progress in complexity.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. develop: Merriam-Webster
  2. develop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. develop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. develop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. develop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Develop, develop: Wordnik
  7. develop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. develop: Wiktionary
  9. develop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. develop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. develop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. develop: Dictionary.com
  13. develop: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. develop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Develop (Apple magazine), Develop (magazine), Develop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Develop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. develop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. develop: Rhymezone
  19. develop: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. develop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. develop: FreeDictionary.org
  22. develop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. develop: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. develop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. develop: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Develop: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. develop: Legal dictionary
  3. develop: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. develop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. develop: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. develop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DEVELOP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. develop: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Develop: Chess Dictionary

(Note: See developable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, now rare) To discover, find out; to uncover.
verb:  (intransitive) To change with a specific direction, progress.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To progress through a sequence of stages.
verb:  (transitive) To advance; to further; to promote the growth of.
verb:  (transitive) To create.
verb:  (transitive) To bring out images latent in photographic film.
verb:  (transitive) To acquire something usually over a period of time.
verb:  (chess, transitive) To place one's pieces actively.
verb:  (snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
verb:  (mathematics) To change the form of (an algebraic expression, etc.) by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.

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