Pass on or delegate to another.

Be inherited by:
— The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead.

synonyms: fall, pass, return.

Roget 783: transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant etc. (confer) 784; consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down; exchange etc. (interchange) 148.    change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come into possession etc. (acquire) 775.    abalienate^†; disinherit; dispossess etc. 789; substitute etc. 147.    ... show more

Grow worse:
— The discussion devolved into a shouting match.

synonyms: degenerate, deteriorate, drop.

Dutch: maken, degenereren, verarmen, verslechteren