To bring from latency to or toward fulfillment, To cause (a tract of land or a building) to serve a particular purpose, To grow by degrees into a more advanced or mature state, transitive verb_ To free from that which infolds or envelops; to unfold; to lay open by degrees or in detail; to make visible or known; to disclose; to produce or give forth, To advance; to further; to prefect; to make to increase; to promote the growth of