Definition of "develop" []

• To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment: an instructor who develops the capabilities of each student. (verb-transitive)
• To expand or enlarge: developed a national corporation into a worldwide business. (verb-transitive)
• To aid in the growth of; strengthen: exercises that develop muscles. (verb-transitive)
• To improve the quality of; refine: develops his recipes to perfection; an extra year of study to develop virtuosic technique. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to become more complex or intricate; add detail and fullness to; elaborate: began with a good premise but developed it without imagination. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Pulping seems like an incentive to too much turnover of stock and a disincentive to let a title develop a following before it's replaced with the next hopeful big hit."
• "The Itahari-based Swagat Tol Bikas Sanstha (STBS) today honoured the elderly to what it calls develop positive and respectful attitude towards them, to mark its fourth anniversary."
• "A sperm cell has no individual identity - a human being cannot develop from a sperm cell, and its genetic information can make a contribution to the identity of a person only in the presence of an egg cell."