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devolve

English

  1. 🔊 grow worse
    “Her condition deteriorated”
  2. 🔊 pass on or delegate to another
    “The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital”
  3. 🔊 be inherited by
    “The estate fell to my sister”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 devolver to devolve
  2. 🔊 involucionar to devolve

Similar words

deteriorate drop degenerate fall return pass accredit assign authorize change hands change ownership charge charter commission commit consign delegate depute deputize descend detach detail devolute devolve upon