See devolve on Wiktionary
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"text": "Coordinate term: befall"
},
{
"ref": ", Episode 16",
"text": "For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned."
}
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"on",
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],
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"(intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone."
],
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"text": "Many legislative powers devolved to the new Scottish parliament in 1999.",
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}
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"To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.",
"To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc."
],
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"on",
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],
[
"upon",
"upon#English"
]
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"(intransitive) To fall as a duty or responsibility on or upon someone.",
"(especially of government authority) To shift or to be transferred from a central government to a local one, a federal one to a federated one, etc."
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"word": "evolve"
},
{
"word": "improve"
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"text": "A discussion about politics may devolve into a shouting match.",
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}
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"To degenerate; to break down."
],
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],
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"(intransitive) To degenerate; to break down."
],
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"text": "Near-synonyms: unwind, unfurl"
},
{
"ref": "1744, Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of the Imagination, section II:",
"text": "every headlong stream / Devolves its winding waters to the main.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1830, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Character:",
"text": "He spake of virtue […] And with […] a lack-lustre dead-blue eye, Devolved his rounded periods.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"To roll (something) down; to unroll."
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"roll"
],
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"unroll"
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"(obsolete, transitive) To roll (something) down; to unroll."
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"word": "roll down"
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"transitive"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pada se na",
"sense": "to be inherited by someone",
"word": "пада се на"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "perexodítʹ",
"sense": "to be inherited by someone",
"word": "переходи́ть"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "predavam",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "предавам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prehvǎrljam",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "прехвърлям"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "přenést"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "gadascems",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "გადასცემს"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "übergeben"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "przekazać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "przenieść"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "peredavátʹ",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "передава́ть"
},
{
"code": "sco",
"lang": "Scots",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "devolve"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to delegate something to someone else",
"word": "delegar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to degenerate",
"word": "involucionar"
}
],
"word": "devolve"
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"de‧vòl‧ve"
],
"lang": "Italian",
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"word": "devolvere"
}
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],
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[
"devolvere",
"devolvere#Italian"
]
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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],
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],
"links": [
[
"dēvolvō",
"devolvo#Latin"
]
],
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]
},
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"ipa": "/deˈvol.ve/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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"ipa": "[d̪eˈvɔlve]",
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}
],
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}
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"word": "devolver"
}
],
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"inflection of devolver:",
"third-person singular present indicative"
],
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[
"devolver",
"devolver#Portuguese"
]
],
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"devolver",
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],
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}
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