The Collaborative International Dictionary
Branch \Branch\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Branched; p. pr. & vb. n. Branching.]
To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
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To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
To branch off, to form a branch or a separate part; to diverge.
To branch out, to speak diffusively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc.
To branch out into a long disputation.
--Spectator.
Usage examples of "to branch out".
Whatever it was-the autodiagnostic equipment was ambivalent -had taken hold along the inside of my scraped rib and grown like fen fungus until it had begun to branch out to my internal organs.
To his left, the road seemed to branch out and encircle another pool.
Settling there, its tendrils attached themselves to the neural pathways, widening them, causing them to branch out, extend their reach through the brain, into the spinal cord, then into all areas of the body.
At each period of growth all the growing twigs have tried to branch out on all sides, and to overtop and kill the surrounding twigs and branches, in the same manner as species and groups of species have tried to overmaster other species in the great battle for life.
The real reason they questioned whole families was to use each family member as a lever, to branch out from those who were first named, to capture as many as they could.
Whatever it was -- the autodiagnostic equipment was ambivalent -- had taken hold along the inside of my scraped rib and grown like fen fungus until it had begun to branch out to my internal organs.