An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
RAMIFIED
RAMIFY
branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate
(verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; “The road forks”
ramify, branch
(verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; “these plants ramify early and get to be very large”
complexify, ramify
(verb) have or develop complicating consequences; “These actions will ramify”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
ramified
simple past tense and past participle of ramify
Anagrams
• rifamide
Source: Wiktionary
RAMIFY
Ram"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ramified; p. pr. & vb. n. Ramifying.] Etym: [F. ramifier, LL. ramificare, fr. L. ramus a branch + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]
Definition: To divide into branches or subdivisions; as, to ramify an art, subject, scheme.
Ram"i*fy, v. i.
1. To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant. When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify. Arbuthnot.
2. To be divided or subdivided, as a main subject.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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