Exacerbate vs Ramify - What's the difference?
exacerbate | ramify |
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
* 2013 , Louise Taylor, English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing'' (in ''The Guardian , 20 August 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/19/english-talent-premier-league-importing]
To divide into branches or subdivisions.
* 1893 , Henry Morris, Human Anatomy , page 648
(figuratively) To spread or diversify into multiple fields or categories.
* 2003 , Wim van Binsbergen, Intercultural Encounters: African and anthropological lessons towards a philosophy of interculturality , page 285
As verbs the difference between exacerbate and ramify
is that exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate while ramify is to divide into branches or subdivisions.exacerbate
English
Verb
(exacerbat)- The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
Derived terms
* exacerbatingly * exacerbationSee also
* exasperate ----ramify
English
Verb
- The cortical, hemispheral or superficial veins ramify on the surface of the brain and return the blood from the cortical substance into the venous sinuses.
- to ramify an art, subject, scheme .
- My point here is that the field within which such determination takes place is not bounded to constitute a single discipline, a single academic elite, a single language domain, a single culture, a single historical period, but that that field ramifies out so as to encompass, ultimately, the entire history of the whole of humankind.
