develop

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1. grow, evolve, increase, fill out, expand, enlarge, swell, wax, become greater or larger; mature, maturate, ripen; bloom, blossom, flower, bear fruit, fructify; sprout, germinate, pullulate, bud, shoot, burst forth, burgeon; extend, distend, stretch, spread, widen.

2. advance, further, promote, exploit; get ahead, go up in the world, progress, make headway, fare well, get or go along; become, come to be, get to be, work up to.

3. elaborate, amplify, magnify, add to, augment, supplement, reinforce.

4. generate, breed, propagate, hatch; bring up, rear, foster, cultivate; invent, fashion, coin; institute, establish, organize; constitute, compose, form, erect, build.

5. explicate, unfold, lay open, uncover, reveal, disclose, make known; be disclosed, become manifest, become evident, appear, dawn, come to light, come out, creep.