| 单词 | ramify |
| 释义 | ramify (once / 3168 pages) 1v 2v The verb ramify describes something that branches off or spreads, like the new subway lines that ramify across your city and reach even the neighborhoods farthest from the center. Ramify came into English through French, but it traces all the way back to the Latin word ramus, meaning "branch." It can describe things that literally branch out in segments, or it can be used figuratively to describe things that spread, like the effects of a new policy that ramify through your school. Ramify might seem like a strange word, but you probably know the related word ramification, a consequence that stems — or branches — from some other action. WORD FAMILYramify: ramification, ramified, ramifies, ramifying+/ramification: ramifications USAGE EXAMPLESIn my case, these take the form of a steadily ramifying doubt that extends to every aspect of the journey. The New Yorker(Apr 11, 2016) The story Simonds originally told, about making old-fashioned, human-scale stories, had given rise to its own sequel, about ramifying digital exploitation. The New Yorker(Jan 11, 2016) Because it is possible to think of the Internet itself, in all its incomprehensible vastness, as an exponentially ramifying network of commentary and metacommentary. The New Yorker(Jun 17, 2015) 1 v have or develop complicating consequences 2These actions will ramify Syn|Hyper complexify change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 1v grow and send out branches or branch-like structures these plants ramify early and get to be very large Syn|Hyper branch branch, fork, furcate, separate divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork grow become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain 2v divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork Syn|Hypo|Hyper branch, fork, furcate, separate branch grow and send out branches or branch-like structures arborise, arborize branch out like trees twigbranch out in a twiglike manner bifurcatedivide into two branches trifurcatedivide into three diverge move or draw apart |
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