branch out
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Verb
branch out (third-person singular simple present branches out, present participle branching out, simple past and past participle branched out)
- (intransitive) To expand in the manner of branches.
- The chart starts in the center and branches out from there.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To expand one's interests or activities in a new direction.
- Studying Latin may make it easier to branch out into Spanish or Italian.
- 2008 October, Mark Jenkins, “Need surgery? Call a travel agent”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 8, →ISSN, page 152:
- Once relegated to facelifts and fat reduction, medical tourism has branched out into almost every kind of procedure, including bypass surgery, heart-valve replacement, angioplasty, knee reconstruction, and spinal fusion.
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expand in the manner of branches
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