Synset

be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 4

sample sentences

"The plot developed slowly"

verb frames

It ----s that CLAUSE

semantic pointers

verb group

develop break, recrudesce, develop arise, develop, originate, spring up, grow, rise, uprise

hypernym

happen, occur, take place, go on, pass, come about, hap, pass off, fall out