 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ramify
verb
1: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions
will ramify" [syn: {complexify}]
2: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these
plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: {branch}]
3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The
road forks" [syn: {branch}, {fork}, {furcate}, {separate}]
[also: {ramified}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ramified
See {ramify}
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ramify \Ram"i*fy\ (r[a^]m"[i^]*f[imac]), verb (used with an object) [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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