Developed Develop Developing Dɪˈveləp Company Place Rapidly Small

• the child is developing normally.
• the place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
• she developed the company from nothing.
• the company develops and markets new software.

develop

1. to gradually grow or become bigger, more advanced, stronger, etc.; to make something do this
• The child is developing normally.
• The place has rapidly developed from a small fishing community into a thriving tourist resort.
• She developed the company from nothing.
2. to think of or produce a new idea, product, etc. and make it successful
• The company develops and markets new software.
• A new type of painkilling drug has recently been developed.
• She makes her own clothes.
• She made a good impression on the interviewer.
• He did a beautiful drawing of a house.
• Who’s doing the food for the party?
• Scientists disagree about how the universe was created.
• Try this new dish, created by our head chef.
• to develop new software
• a factory that produces microchips
• to generate electricity
• Brainstorming is a good way of generating ideas.
• Rearrange the letters to form a new word.
• The chain is formed from 136 links.
3. to begin to have something such as a disease or a problem; to start to affect somebody/something
• See related entries: Being ill
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/being_ill/develop
• Her son developed asthma when he was two.
• The car developed engine trouble and we had to stop.
4. to start to happen or change, especially in a bad way
• A crisis was rapidly developing in the Gulf.
• We need more time to see how things develop before we take action.
5. to start to have a skill, ability, quality, etc. that becomes better and stronger; to become better and stronger
• He's developed a real flair for management.
• Their relationship has developed over a number of years.
6. to build new houses, factories, etc. on an area of land, especially land that was not being used effectively before
• The site is being developed by a French company.
7. to make an idea, a story, etc. clearer by explaining it further
• synonym elaborate (1)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/elaborate_2
• She develops the theme more fully in her later books.
8. to treat film which has been used to take photographs with chemicals so that the pictures can be seen
• I had the film developed yesterday.

Extra Examples

• The situation is developing into a crisis.
• Some children develop more slowly than others.
• The conflict quickly developed into full-scale war.
• The place developed from a small fishing village into a major port.
• We are gradually developing better treatments for these conditions.
• an opportunity to develop new skills
• A coherent strategy for getting more people back to work needs to be developed.
• She developed lung cancer at the age of sixty.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they develop
• he / she / it develops
• past simple developed
• past participle developed
• -ing form developing

Word Origin

• mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘unfold, unfurl’): from French développer, based on Latin dis- ‘un-’ + a second element of unknown origin found also in envelop.