incubate vs develop

incubate and develop both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
incubate	No	No	Yes	No
develop	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, develop is a hypernym of incubate; that is, develop is a word with a broader meaning than incubate:

incubate: grow under conditions that promote development
develop: grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment

incubate (verb)	develop (verb)
sit on (eggs)	come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
grow under conditions that promote development	grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment
	cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
	happen
	change the use of and make available or usable
	be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest
	gain through experience
	become technologically advanced
	grow emotionally or mature
	expand in the form of a series
	elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme
	create by training and teaching
	elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses
	move into a strategically more advantageous position
	move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions
	superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry
	work out
	make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation
	generate gradually
	make visible by means of chemical solutions
	come into existence; take on form or shape