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to ramify efforts

to ramify efforts

8.4
To spread work into new areas or different goals
  • phrasal verb
translation icon : diversificar esfuerzos
  • The organization plans to ramify efforts to address hunger in both urban and rural areas.

Examples

  • The school administration decided to ramify efforts by launching several community programs this year.

  • To succeed in the competitive market, we must ramify efforts across new product lines.

  • Let's ramify efforts!

  • We need to ramify efforts to reach more communities.

  • The organization plans to ramify efforts to address hunger in both urban and rural areas.

  • The school administration decided to ramify efforts by launching several community programs this year.

  • To succeed in the competitive market, we must ramify efforts across new product lines.

Synonyms

to expand
vsto ramify efforts
805 2.5

To grow larger in size, amount, or importance

stresses changing activities to reach more aims as well as size
to extend
vsto ramify efforts
680 3.2

To make something reach farther, such as more places or people

differs by focusing less on time and more on varying initiatives
to broaden
vsto ramify efforts
92 3.9

To make or become wider and include more things

adds the idea of varying initiatives as well as simply widening scope
to widen
vsto ramify efforts
85 2.5

To make something have more space from one side to the other so it fits or moves more easily

combines broadening with intentional variation across different aims
to diversify
vsto ramify efforts
63 5.3

To add different kinds of products or activities to reduce risk

also increases the area and number of initiatives beyond variety
to cast a wider net
vsto ramify efforts
3 4.2

To look in more places to find someone or something

focuses on both varying actions and covering a wider set of objectives
to ramify into
vsto ramify efforts
8.4

Spread into several related parts or areas

uses branching primarily to vary activities and cover new objectives

Antonyms

to restrict
361 3.1

Limit how much people can use or access something

to consolidate
50 4.7

To join several things into one whole

How Broad

to scale up
9 3.9
to ramify efforts
8.4
to concentrate
561 3.4

Surface Forms

ramify efforts infinitive
ramified efforts past
ramified efforts past participle
ramifying efforts present participle
ramifies efforts third person singular

Morphology

ramify + effort

The meaning 'to expand or diversify actions' is directly derivable from combining 'ramify' (to branch out/extend into branches) with 'efforts' (organized actions), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the phrase. While 'ramify' is somewhat formal and the collocation is less common, the semantic composition is literal and transparent.

Etymology

Ramify efforts comes from the image of a tree: ramify means to grow branches, so imagine your efforts as one trunk that splits into many branches reaching different places. That's why the phrase means 'to spread out' or 'expand actions' to cover more areas.