Resemble

/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

Example Sentences

The twins resemble each other.

We will resemble you in that.

He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.

But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

They can so well resemble mans speech.

And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire, And with the ſame proportion of Elements, Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled, Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]

they resemble themselves to the swans

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• resembles
• resembling
• resembled

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