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Definition of develop : 1. To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of.
2. To become apparent gradually; as, a picture on sensitive paper develops on the application of heat; the plans of the conspirators develop.
3. To cause to become visible, as an invisible or latent image upon plate, by submitting it to chemical agents; to bring to view.
4. To change the form of, as of an algebraic expression, by executing certain indicated operations without changing the value.
5. To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth; as, to develop theories; a motor that develops 100 horse power.
6. To go through a process of natural evolution or growth, by successive changes from a less perfect to a more perfect or more highly organized state; to advance from a simpler form of existence to one more complex either in structure or function; as, a blossom develops from a bud; the seed develops into a plant; the embryo develops into a well- formed animal; the mind develops year by year.
7. To unfold gradually, as a flower from a bud; hence, to bring through a succession of states or stages, each of which is preparatory to the next; to form or expand by a process of growth; to cause to change gradually from an embryo, or a lower state, to a higher state or form of being; as, sunshine and rain develop the bud into a flower; to develop the mind.

Synonyms:

machinate, kick downstairs, set up, engender, bring about, set about, arm, youth, interrupt, go bad, conk out, civilise, break out, fill out, obtain, burgeon forth, get around, refine, exploit, discontinue, spud, bristle, get out, show, weaken, advance, come about, excogitate, dumbfound, get under one's skin, set out, organize, give away, go against, turn, learn, take on, wear, break dance, stop, baffle, build up, explain, cave in, arrive, amaze, raise, founder, flummox, ramp up, tell, split, condition, become, progress, unwind, acquire, pay off, discipline, snap off, educate, bourgeon, bring, violate, intensify, experience, larn, find, separate, make grow, sustain, fix, betide, pullulate, make known, lift, recrudesce, break away, unwrap, build on, vex, turn out, fracture, explicate, climb, give voice, get down, perfect, gird, bewilder, go, break down, collapse, sicken, gain, dampen, kin, stimulate, shape up, stand up, maturate, rebel, have, jump, soften, come off, recount, move up, burst, receive, break, overhaul, crack, unfold, civilize, demote, groom, erupt, disentangle, disclose, take aim, direct, get, elaborate, break up, word, bankrupt, articulate, fortify, smash, take, mount, get up, rise, hap, gear up, induce, pause, come apart, shoot, convey, damp, bump, reveal, start out, divulge, drive, give way, rail, stick, school, rise up, decrease, reduce, trail, pay back, finish, cook, fall in, summarize, let, discover, part, cause, realize, aim, bring out, adopt, buzz off, polish, organise, unfurl, phrase, unroll, wax, labor, uprise, go up, let on, relegate, promote, stupefy, arrest, puzzle, train, fail, forge, come, intermit, expose, expatiate, bob up, spring up, improve, farm, perplex, heighten, break in, bust, mystify, fix up, draw, conceal, evolve, coach, exhibit, give rise, beat, nonplus, better, give, detail, give out, contrive, work up, assume, beautify, contract, infract, fetch, gravel, break off, rear, damage, offend, scram, ascend, climb up, bugger off, come up, check, resurrect, sire, hide, ruin, enrich, capture, modernize, state, narrate, account for, transgress, beget, uncover, bring forth, fall apart, prove, breach, pass, incur, manifest, fill in, unravel, win, suffer, wear out, modernise, bring on, surface, deepen, split up, strengthen, pose, catch, let out, die

generate, build, produce, invent

befall, occur, transpire, happen, arise

ensue, eventuate, destine, approach, follow, result, impend

enlarge, amplify, extend, magnify, lengthen, inflate, burgeon, increment, spread, broaden, augment, expand, swell, engorge, thicken, grow, stretch, widen, dilate, distend, fatten, increase

equip, arrange, fashion, mobilize, marshal, make, curry, furnish, outfit, construct, compose, fabricate, prime, dress, ready, formulate, prepare, set, devise, draft, fit, foster

endure, mature, age, season, last, deteriorate, decline, ripen, grow old, mellow

embark, sprout, bud, germinate, form, originate, dawn, commence, introduce, begin, initialize, hatch, induct, birth, undertake, start, initiate, stem, inaugurate, create, conceive, spring, emerge

execute, manufacture, mother, father, cultivate

Usage examples:

• She was happy, but her nature had yet to develop itself under these strangely novel conditions. - "The Nether World", George Gissing.
• I'm going to give you a chance to develop some brains. - "The Iron Woman", Margaret Deland.
• The Apostles develop out of themselves ministry and people. - "Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom", T. W. Allies.