"The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital"
"The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
"The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
同义词： deteriorate drop degenerate
以上来源于: WordNet
V-T/V-I If you devolve power, authority, or responsibility to a less powerful person or group, or if it devolves upon them, it is transferred to them. (权力、责任) 下放
...the need to decentralize and devolve power to regional governments.
…把权力分散下放到地方政府的需要。
The best companies are those that devolve responsibility as far as they can.
最好的公司是那些尽可能把责任下放的公司。
Many companies pride themselves on devolving power to front-line workers.
许多公司为他们把权力移交给一线的职工而自豪。
But where devolving forest rights provoked local conflict, as quite often happens, the forest usually suffered.
但当下放森林权利激起地方冲突时(这是经常发生的)，森林通常会遭受损失。
Most writing online is devolving toward SMS and tweets that involve quick, throwaway notes with abbreviations and threaded references.
大部分在线写作正在朝短信和tweets形式转变， 都是些含有缩略词和跟帖式参考的快速、脱口而出的注释。
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