devolve

pass on or delegate to another

• “The representative devolved his duties to his aides while he was in the hospital”

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”

grow worse

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