Evolve and Proceed

Evolve

Evolve verb - To gradually become clearer or more detailed.

Usage example: as the governor's plans for the reform of state government evolved, objections from various groups inevitably arose

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Proceed and evolve are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Proceed" instead a verb "Evolve".

Nearby Words: evolution, evolving

Proceed verb - To move forward along a course.

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Evolve and proceed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Evolve" instead a verb "Proceed".

Nearby Word: proceeding

character	evolve character	proceed character
life	evolve life	proceed life
place	evolve place	proceed place
form	evolve form	proceed form
Other words: time, way, characters, world, story, plans, powers, weapons.

Get it to level 20 and it'll evolve into the very powerful Gyarados, which can proceed to steamroll everything in its path.

Source: Video Game / Pokémon Red and Blue
After he makes the terrible mistake of accidentally burrowing into the Badass Army's base, they proceed to rapidly evolve their response to him, starting with guns, then a bazooka, then tank rounds.

Source: Five Rounds Rapid
Dracomon is a 3rd level Digimon who has two distinct evolutionary lines; after evolving into one of two different versions of Coredramon, he will proceed to evolve to a form suited to either the sky or the land.

Source: Franchise / Digimon

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