Devolve and Devolving

verb

• Pass on or delegate to another.
  • usage: "The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
• Be inherited by.
  • usage: "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
  • synonyms: fall, return, pass
• Grow worse.
  • usage: "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
  • synonyms: deteriorate, drop, degenerate

• (v.t.) To transfer from one person to another; to deliver over; to hand down; -- generally with upon, sometimes with to or into.
• (v.t.) To roll onward or downward; to pass on.
• (v.i.) 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.

To pass on or delegate to another, e. G. A' DEVOLVE'd letter of credit.