#wordplay: ramify
ramify v. to grow and send out branches or branch-like structure.
Her body has kept the hard neatness it had when they were kids working at Kroll’s but underneath her chin there are ugly folds that ramify into her neck.
John Updike, Rabbit At Rest
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I had never thought of this as the origin of ‘ramifications’. I always just thought it was a fancy synonym for consequences, but it’s a lot more elegant than that. Thanks for the new thing, Mark.
Yeah I was a little unclear on that. I guess in terms of consequences, to ramify is to branch out – ie a single event having multiple consequences.
Or something to that degree.
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