devastate
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～ cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly; "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
devastate
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～ overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"
devein
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～ remove the dark dorsal vein of (a shrimp)
develop
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～ cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
develop
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～ happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time"
develop
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～ expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form"
develop
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～ generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone"
develop
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～ move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly"
develop
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～ grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior"
develop
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～ move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook"
develop
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～ make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me"
develop
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～ superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
develop
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～ elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme; "develop the melody and change the key"
develop
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～ be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly"
develop
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～ elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
develop
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～ come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts"
develop
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～ become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly"
develop
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～ work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution"
develop
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～ create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future"
develop
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～ come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose"