Usually means: Grows or progresses over time.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. develops: Merriam-Webster
  2. develops: Collins English Dictionary
  3. develops: Vocabulary.com
  4. Develops, develops: Wordnik
  5. develops: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. develops: Wiktionary
  7. develops: Dictionary.com
  8. develops: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. develops: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. develops: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. develops: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. develops: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. develops: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (develop)

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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