ramify

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  1. intransitive verb To have complicating consequences or outgrowths: The problem merely ramified after the unsuccessful meeting.
  2. intransitive verb To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts.
  3. transitive verb To divide into or cause to extend in branches or subordinate branchlike parts.

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  • The first one of this class of words he employed almost shocked me, and I never forgot it, 'twas "ramify." —  The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  • Just as these fascinating giant molecules are continuing to ramify, new perspectives and challenges continue to emerge. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Slide 8: The Ramage or Conical Clan • Internally ranked, or hierarchical, social organization • Tendency to "ramify," that is subordinate lineages split off main group to found new communities • Over time this process results in long-distance - island-hopping - migrations that resulted in peopling of Polynesia by Austronesian-speaking peoples —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • "To ramify is to branch out," says Stephen Goddard, senior curator of prints. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • The lungs have bronchial tubes which ramify, and at length end in air-cells, into which the lungs admit the air, and thus respire. —  Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom
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  1. Middle English ramifien, to branch out, from Old French ramifier, from Medieval Latin rāmificāre : Latin rāmus, branch; see wrād- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficāre, -fy.

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  1. from French ramifier = Provencal Spanish Portuguese ramificar = Italian ramificare, from Middle Latin *ramificare (in past participle ramificatus), branch, ramify. from Latin ramus, a branch (see ramus), + -ficare, from facere, make.
 

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