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verb (used with object), verb (used without object), -fied, -fy·ing.
to divide or spread out into branches or branchlike parts; extend into subdivisions.
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Ramify
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Example Sentences
- They required focus, because if you were distracted for a minute, you would mess up and your error would ramify into the world.
- Obviously this takes a while to ramify through to parity of representation at the highest levels of scholarship.
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ramify
1540s, "branch out," from M.Fr. ramifier (early 14c.), from M.L. ramificare, from L. ramus "branch" (related to radix "root;" see radish) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious).
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ramify ram·i·fy (rām'ə-fī')
v. ram·i·fied, ram·i·fy·ing, ram·i·fies
To branch.
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