devolves in English

verb

1

transfer or delegate (power) to a lower level, especially from central government to local or regional administration.

measures to devolve power to the provinces

synonyms: delegate, depute, pass (down/on), download, hand down/over/on, transfer, transmit, assign, consign, convey, entrust, turn over, give, cede, surrender, relinquish, deliver, bestow, grant

verb

delegate, depute, pass (down/on), download, hand down/over/on, transfer, transmit, assign, consign, convey, entrust, turn over, give, cede, surrender, relinquish, deliver, bestow, grant
fall, return, pass
drop, degenerate, deteriorate

Use "devolves" in a sentence

1. A large portion of this cost devolves upon the patient.

2. The Architect quickly devolves from hip, idealistic ensemble piece to mostly soapy goulash for the politically correct

3. A general Airlessness sets in, as a tendency to sleight-of-narrative hand devolves into post-Tarantino trickeration

4. Benchley’s story begins well enough but quickly devolves into irritatingly familiar soap opera dynamics and melodramatic narrative set-pieces; the sexually frustrated housewife, the ‘heated’ cliched exchanges between the beleaguered police chief and Town Selectmen and there are set-pieces in the book which are so stilted and wooden that