Evolve
Evolve verb - To gradually become clearer or more detailed.
Return
Return verb - To go back to a previous and usually lower state or level.
Usage example: vowed to do anything to keep the recovering alcoholic from returning to his dissolute ways
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- If they survive their brush with death to return as a recurring character, they'll evolve into The Driver instead.
Source: Disposable Pilot -
His Sixth Doctor comic "The World Shapers" from Doctor Who Magazine features the return of the Voord who evolve into the Cybermen and Jamie McCrimmon as a mad old man who gets killed.
Source: Creator / Grant Morrison -
The huge spike comes when you're almost getting the fifth rank, when you visit the windmills on first time, they have weak enemies, but when you return there, most the random enemies evolve and THEN you feel the difference!
Source: Difficulty Spike
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