ramify

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

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

A mart of commerce would concentrate a great Saharan traffic, ramifying through every part of Africa. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson
Our business was to explore the Pike and the Fork and the channels which ramify through them. — The Riddle of the Sands, Erskine Childers
This once had been part of the sub-cellar of the gigantic New York City--these tunnels ramifying into underground chambers, most of which had now fallen into disuse. — Astounding Stories, June, 1931, Various

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