resemble
verbattested in dialogue
- Canada//ɹɪˈzɛmbəl//
- Canada/[ɹɪˈzɛmbl̩]/
- Australia//ɹɪˈzembəl//
- Australia/[ɹɪˈzembl̩]/
- New Zealand//ɹəˈzembəl//
To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
verb
- 1
To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
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.
- 2
archaicTo compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- 3
obsoleteTo counterfeit; to imitate.
They can so well resemble mans speech.
- 4
obsoleteTo cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
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
Etymology
From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.
Forms
- past tense
- resembled
- past participle
- resembled
- present participle
- resembling
- third person singular
- resembles
resemble · To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
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