ramify

ramify
    v 1: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions
         will ramify" [syn: {complexify}, {ramify}]
    2: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these
       plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: {ramify},
       {branch}]
    3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
       road forks" [syn: {branch}, {ramify}, {fork}, {furcate},
       {separate}]
    

Ramify \Ram"i*fy\ (r[a^]m"[i^]*f[imac]), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Ramified} (-f[imac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Ramifying}.] [F.
   ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in
   comp.) to make. See {-fy}.]
   To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an
   art, subject, scheme.
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Ramify \Ram"i*fy\, v. i.
   1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the
      stem of a plant.
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            When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
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93 Moby Thesaurus words for "ramify":
      accelerate, aggravate, ball up, beef up, bifurcate, bisect,
      blow up, branch, branch out, by two, cleave, complicate,
      concentrate, condense, confound, confuse, consolidate, cut in two,
      deepen, deploy, dichotomize, dimidiate, disperse, divaricate,
      divide, double, embrangle, enhance, entangle, exacerbate,
      exaggerate, expand, extend, fan, fan out, fission, flare, fork,
      foul up, furcate, halve, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up,
      implicate, in half, intensify, involve, jazz up, key up, knot,
      louse up, magnify, make complex, mess up, mix up, muck up, muddle,
      open, open up, outspread, outstretch, overgrow, overrun, perplex,
      ravel, redouble, reinforce, screw up, sharpen, snarl, snarl up,
      soup up, splay, split in two, spraddle, sprangle, sprawl, spread,
      spread like wildfire, spread out, stem, step up, strengthen,
      subdivide, tangle, transect, trifurcate, triple, unfold, whet,
      widen