"devolve" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Pass on or delegate to another (synset 202397527)
"The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"

is a type of: assign, delegate, depute, designate - give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
Be inherited by (synset 202234332)
"The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"

is a type of: change hands, change owners - be transferred to another owner

subtypes: fall, light - fall to somebody by assignment or lot

same as: fall, pass, return

verb group: accrue, fall - come into the possession of
Grow worse (synset 200092045)
"Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

is a type of: decline, worsen - grow worse
subtypes:
- fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary - lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- fade, languish - become feeble
- rot, waste - become physically weaker
same as: degenerate, deteriorate, drop