Antonyms for branch out


Grammar : Verb
Spell : branch, brahnch
Phonetic Transcription : bræntʃ, brɑntʃ


Definition of branch out

Origin :
  • c.1300, braunch, "limb of a tree" (also used of things analogous to it, especially geographic features), from Old French branche "branch, bough, twig; branch of a family" (12c.), from Late Latin branca "footprint," later "a claw, paw," of unknown origin, probably from Gaulish. The connecting notion would be the shape (cf. pedigree). Replaced native bough. Meaning "local office of a business" is first recorded 1817, from earlier sense of "component part of a system" (1690s).
  • As in radiate : verb give off; scatter
  • As in stretch : verb extend, elongate
  • As in branch off : verb extend
  • As in branch off/branch out : verb extend beyond main part
  • As in ramify : verb branch
  • As in fork : verb go separate ways
  • As in grow : verb become larger, evolve
Example sentences :
  • I been thinking I might likely kind of branch out on my own account.
  • Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
  • I've worked on horses up to now, but I'm a-goin' to branch out!
  • Extract from : « Prairie Flowers » by James B. Hendryx
  • This was not in the lesson that had been taught him, but he determined to branch out for himself.
  • Extract from : « Jerry » by Jean Webster
  • But if a boy tries to branch out as a statesman, they choke him off.
  • Extract from : « The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy » by George W. Peck
  • He'd do it if I urged him; but it's just as you say, he doesn't want to branch out.
  • Extract from : « The Opened Shutters » by Clara Louise Burnham
  • There branch out from it two main lines of valleys on the west, and two on the east.
  • Extract from : « The Valleys of Tirol » by R. H. Busk
  • The sori are placed on veins which branch out from the mid-veins of the pinnules.
  • Extract from : « How to Know the Ferns » by S. Leonard Bastin
  • Well, we must have the essay before we branch out into our philosophy.
  • Extract from : « Friends in Council » by Arthur Helps
  • The subject may now branch out into many and various directions.
  • Extract from : « Conversation » by Andrew P. Peabody
  • God wants us to branch out and bless the world and be conquerors.
  • Extract from : « The Palm Tree Blessing » by W. E. Shepard

Synonyms for branch out

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