intransitive verb. To have complicating consequences or outgrowths.

intransitive verb. To send out branches or subordinate branchlike parts.

intransitive verb. To divide into or cause to extend in branches or subordinate branchlike parts.

To form branches; shoot into branches, as the stem of a plant, or anything analogous to it; branch out.

To diverge in various ways or to different points; stretch out in different lines or courses; radiate.

To divide into branches or parts; extend in different lines or directions.

intransitive verb. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant.

intransitive verb. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.

transitive verb. To divide into branches or subdivisions.

verb. To divide into branches or subdivisions.

verb. To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.

verb. divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork

verb. have or develop complicating consequences

verb. grow and send out branches or branch-like structures

"The word ramify has appeared in one Times article over the past year and only four times in the past five years, most recently in the July 11, 2010 Sunday Magazine cover article by Robert F."

ramification  

ramified  ramifying  

change  grow  

accelerate  aggravate  ball up  beef up  bifurcate  

ramified  

ramified  ramifies  ramifying