Definition of RAMIFY

ramify

Verb

Verb Forms: ramified, ramifying, ramifies

  • To divide or spread out into branches or subdivisions.
  • have or develop complicating consequences
    • "These actions will ramify"
  • grow and send out branches or branch-like structures
    • "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"
  • divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
  • To divide into branches or subdivisions.
  • To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.

Examples

  • A clever play allowed his word chain to RAMIFY across the Words With Friends board.
  • to ramify an art, subject, scheme

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ramifier, from Medieval Latin ramificō (“to branch, ramify”), from Latin rāmus (“a branch”) + -ficō (causative suffix).

Scrabble Score: 14

ramify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
ramify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ramify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

ramify: valid Words With Friends Word