What is "ramifies"

Usage examples of "ramifies".

The water seeks out all the low places, and ramifies the interior, running away into lovely bays and lagoons, leaving slender tongues of land and picturesque islands, and bringing into the recesses of the land, to the remote country farms and settlements, the flavor of salt, and the fish and mollusks of the briny sea.

And this war that we are fighting ramifies into so many regions of space and time that—well, from your viewpoint or even mine, it no longer makes much sense to ask who all of our enemies are, or all our allies either.

It ramifies into a Self that cannot be decomposed into the mere operation of neat laws.