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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