Ramify

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ramify \Ram"i*fy\ (r[a^]m"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Ramified} (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ramifying}.] [F.
     ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in
     comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
     To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an
     art, subject, scheme.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ramify \Ram"i*fy\, v. i.
     1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the
        stem of a plant.
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              When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ramify
       v 1: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions
            will ramify" [syn: {complexify}]
       2: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these
          plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: {branch}]
       3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
          road forks" [syn: {branch}, {fork}, {furcate}, {separate}]
       [also: {ramified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  93 Moby Thesaurus words for "ramify":
     accelerate, aggravate, ball up, beef up, bifurcate, bisect,
     blow up, branch, branch out, by two, cleave, complicate,
     concentrate, condense, confound, confuse, consolidate, cut in two,
     deepen, deploy, dichotomize, dimidiate, disperse, divaricate,
     divide, double, embrangle, enhance, entangle, exacerbate,
     exaggerate, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fission, flare, fork,
     foul up, furcate, halve, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up,
     implicate, in half, intensify, involve, jazz up, key up, knot,
     louse up, magnify, make complex, mess up, mix up, muck up, muddle,
     open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, perplex,
     ravel, redouble, reinforce, screw up, sharpen, snarl, snarl up,
     soup up, splay, split in two, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread,
     spread like wildfire, spread out, stem, step up, strengthen,
     subdivide, tangle, transect, trifurcate, triple, unfold, whet,
     widen