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ramified

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ram·i·fy  (rm-f)
v. ram·i·fied, ram·i·fy·ing, ram·i·fies
v.intr.
1. To have complicating consequences or outgrowths: The problem merely ramified after the unsuccessful meeting.
2. To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts.
v.tr.
To divide into or cause to extend in branches or subordinate branchlike parts.

[Middle English ramifien, to branch out, from Old French ramifier, from Medieval Latin rmificre : Latin rmus, branch; see wrd- in Indo-European roots + Latin -ficre, -fy.]
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ramified
adj (lit, fig)verzweigt; (more intricate) → verästelt


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His cousins and connections ramified like a labyrinth all over the governing class of Great Britain, and he seemed to be on good, or at least on good-humored, terms with most of them.
 
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