What does ramify mean?
Definitions for ramify
ˈræm əˌfaɪram·i·fy
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Princeton's WordNet
complexify, ramifyverb
have or develop complicating consequences
"These actions will ramify"
ramify, branchverb
grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
"these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separateverb
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
"The road forks"
Wiktionary
ramifyverb
To divide into branches or subdivisions.
ramifyverb
To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Etymology: From ramifier, from *, from ramus + facio.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Ramifyverb
To separate into branches.
Etymology: ramifier, Fr. ramus and facio, Lat.
The mint, grown to have a pretty thick stalk, with the various and ramified roots, which it shot into the water, presented a spectacle not unpleasant to behold. Boyle.
To Ramifyverb
To be parted into branches.
Asparagus affects the urine with a fœtid smell, especially if cut when they are white; when they are older, and begin to ramify, they lose this quality. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
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ramify
To ramify means to divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts, to become complex or diverse, or to have consequences or complications. It can refer to the physical branching of things like plants, nerves, or paths, or the metaphorical branching off of ideas, concepts or event outcomes.
Webster Dictionary
Ramifyverb
to divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme
Ramifyverb
to shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant
Ramifyverb
to be divided or subdivided, as a main subject
Etymology: [F. ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Ramify
Ramification, &c. See under Ramus.
Entomology
Ramify
to branch out in every direction.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of ramify in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of ramify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of ramify in a Sentence
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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