devolve

Verb

• grow worse
  • Her condition deteriorated
    
  • Conditions in the slums degenerated
    
  • The discussion devolved into a shouting match
    

• be inherited by
  • 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
    

• pass on or delegate to another
  • The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  deteriorate , drop , degenerate , fall , return , pass
• Antonyms: 
  recuperate , recover , convalesce