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Ramify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To divide into branches or subdivisions. ambitransitive

    "The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses."

  2. 2
    divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork wordnet
  3. 3
    To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories. figuratively

    "to ramify an art, subject, scheme"

  4. 4
    grow and send out branches or branch-like structures wordnet
  5. 5
    have or develop complicating consequences wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ramifier, from Medieval Latin ramificō (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + -ficō (causative suffix).

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