Scrabble & Words with friends points
- develops is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 14
- develops is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 14
- develops is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 17
Definition of develops
- create by training and teaching (verb)
Examples
- we develop the leaders for the future
Synonyms
- educate
- prepare
- train
- work out (verb)
Examples
- We have developed a new theory of evolution
Synonyms
- evolve
- germinate
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes) (verb)
Examples
- The patient developed abdominal pains
- Well-developed breasts
Synonyms
- acquire
- get
- grow
- produce
- cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development (verb)
Examples
- The perfect climate here develops the grain
- He developed a new kind of apple
Synonyms
- make grow
- gain through experience (verb)
Examples
- Children must develop a sense of right and wrong
- Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position
- develop a passion for painting
Synonyms
- acquire
- evolve
- change the use of and make available or usable (verb)
Examples
- develop land
- The country developed its natural resources
Synonyms
- build up
- come into existence; take on form or shape (verb)
Synonyms
- arise
- grow
- originate
- rise
- spring up
- uprise
- happen (verb)
Examples
- Report the news as it develops
Synonyms
- break
- recrudesce
- elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses (verb)
Examples
- Could you develop the ideas in your thesis
Synonyms
- explicate
- formulate
- become technologically advanced (verb)
Examples
- Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace
Synonyms
- modernise
- modernize
- grow emotionally or mature (verb)
Examples
- The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten
Synonyms
- grow
- be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest (verb)
Examples
- The plot developed slowly
- elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme (verb)
Examples
- develop the melody and change the key
- expand in the form of a series (verb)
- generate gradually (verb)
Examples
- We must develop more potential customers
- develop a market for the new mobile phone
- grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment (verb)
Examples
- A flower developed on the branch
- The country developed into a mighty superpower
- The embryo develops into a fetus
- This situation has developed over a long time
- make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation (verb)
Examples
- Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather
- They developed a new technique
- make visible by means of chemical solutions (verb)
Examples
- Please develop this roll of film for me
- move into a strategically more advantageous position (verb)
Examples
- develop the rook
- move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions (verb)
Examples
- Spassky developed quickly
- superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry (verb)
See definition of develops in Merriam Webster