| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| ramify |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ram·i·fy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r m  -f  |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: ram·i·fied, ram·i·fy·ing, ram·i·fies
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To have complicating consequences or outgrowths: The problem merely ramified after the unsuccessful meeting. 2. To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | To divide into or cause to extend in branches or subordinate branchlike parts. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English ramifien, to branch out, from Old French ramifier, from Medieval Latin r mificre : Latin rmus, branch; see wrd- in Appendix I + Latin -ficre, -fy.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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