ramify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb have or develop complicating consequences
    complexify.
    • These actions will ramify
  2. verb grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
    branch.
    • these plants ramify early and get to be very large
  3. verb divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
    fork; furcate; branch; separate.
    • The road forks

WordNet

Ram"i*fy transitive verb
Etymology
F. ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Ramified ; present participle & verbal noun Ramifying
Definitions
  1. To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Ram"i*fy intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.
    When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify. Arbuthnot.
  2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.

Webster 1913