Devolve is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEVOLVE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to transfer from one person to another
• transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration
• (of duties or responsibility) pass to (a body or person at a lower level)
• (of property) be transferred from one owner to (another), especially by inheritance
• pass into (a different state, especially a worse one); degenerate
• pass to a successor or substitute
• To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• To pass by transmission or succession; to be handed over or down; -- generally with on or upon, sometimes with to or into; as, after the general fell, the command devolved upon (or on) the next officer in rank.
• pass on or delegate to another
• be inherited by
• grow worse

Words related to DEVOLVE

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Words that contain DEVOLVE

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How to use DEVOLVE in a sentence

• Our tastes render us very anxious to devolve upon others as soon as possible the preservation and development of the property we have acquired.
• Velna had run risks that could not well be increased, and on her and on myself must devolve what remained to be done.
• Alarmed at the universal outcry, Mahomet was not sorry that he could devolve the heavy load of responsibility on the shoulders of his minister.
• Either the President must do it himself, or devolve it on some member of his cabinet.
• Nairn, who on every occasion endeavoured to relieve me as much as possible from some of the many arduous duties that usually devolve on the leader of an exploring party.
• The important task would probably devolve on men, who, with inferior capacities, would in other respects be little better qualified.
• Even the management of foreign negotiations will naturally devolve upon him, according to general principles concerted with the Senate, and subject to their final concurrence.
• The whole labor and expense of moving at all devolve on me, and I have nothing in the world.
• I am at its head, but the cares and responsibility which devolve on me in consequence are more than a balance for the honor.
• It is more than probable that the final adjustment of these claims will devolve upon my successor.
• Woodward had other persons engaged in it, on whom he had now made up his mind to devolve the consequences of the whole proceedings.
• This absorption in the effect and inattention to the cause is to a certain degree bred in us by the very nature of the duties that devolve upon us as women.
• However this may be, I am sure it is her greatest happiness to deserve his respect and love, and honourably to perform all the duties which devolve upon her in her married life.
• Thus do We devolve on thee what hath descended upon Us from Him Who is the All-Glorious, the All-Wise.
• Is it that this responsibility is but a remote contingency? On the contrary, it is sure to devolve on nine out of ten.
• You, perhaps, know that his property, amounting to seven or eight thousand a year, will eventually devolve upon Bell.
• On him would devolve the duty of looking after the old folk and his unmarried sisters.
• Consequently, if the war was to be carried on abroad, the conduct of it must of necessity devolve upon Scipio.
• He pretended by his sole act and deed, to devolve upon these the whole authority of the state.
• We shall propose that the duty of collecting the returns shall devolve on the excise.
• On them will devolve the task of recording the history, and of estimating the significance, of so radical a revolution in the fortunes of a slowly maturing Faith.
• Upon the present generation of youth will devolve the weighty task of helping to construct a new world after the effects of this tragic war have passed away.
• This is the eugenic opportunity and it is an opportunity that should devolve upon the women of the race.
• Their possession of the original document will be self-evident, and it will devolve on us to show that that assignment was illegal.
• In such contingency the death of the President would, under existing law, devolve the office of President upon the Secretary of State.
• In view of the many laborious duties which devolve upon him, the Secretary, in many lodges, receives a compensation for his services.
• The Allens, he believed, had lived near them too long, and he knew the young man on whom the Fullerton estate must devolve.
• Striving to fit himself for such duties as might devolve on him, should he be summoned to the field, like all great men and all practical men he had gone to the best masters.
• The Constitution and the oath provided in it devolve upon the President the power and duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed.
• That tendency to devolve our duties descends on us, which is the soul of slavery, alike whether for its menial tasks it employs serfs or emperors.
• The digging up of roots and collecting of shellfish are duties which devolve upon the females.
• Upon the rest of the members will devolve activities of a general character under the direction of the selected chiefs.
• Lennox and Aunt Betsy, knowing how unequal he was to the task which would devolve on him in case of a bridal party at the farmhouse.
• The responsibility and duties of parents must not for one moment devolve upon him.

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