ramify > define
verb
- Have or develop complicating consequences.
- usage: "These actions will ramify"
- synonyms: complexify
- Grow and send out branches or branch-like structures.
- usage: "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
- synonyms: branch
- Divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork.
- usage: "The road forks"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To shoot or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
- (v.t.) To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
- (v.i.) To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary