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Definitions for ramify
ˈræm əˌfaɪram·i·fy

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. complexify, ramifyverb

    have or develop complicating consequences

    "These actions will ramify"

  2. ramify, branchverb

    grow and send out branches or branch-like structures

    "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

  3. branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separateverb

    divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

    "The road forks"

Wiktionary

  1. ramifyverb

    To divide into branches or subdivisions.

  2. ramifyverb

    To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.

    to ramify an art, subject, scheme.

  3. Etymology: From ramifier, from *, from ramus + facio.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Ramifyverb

    to divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme

  2. Ramifyverb

    to shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant

  3. Ramifyverb

    to be divided or subdivided, as a main subject

  4. Etymology: [F. ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Ramify

    Ramification, &c. See under Ramus.

Entomology

  1. Ramify

    to branch out in every direction.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of ramify in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of ramify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of ramify in a Sentence

  1. John Maynard Keynes:

    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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