resemble

IPA: rɪzˈɛmbʌɫ

verb

  • (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
  • (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
  • (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
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Examples of "resemble" in Sentences

  • It rarely happens that any two copies of the Alif Lila va Lilin resemble each other.
  • He gave the guttural a rolling sound that made the word resemble an oath in some exotic language.
  • DM: Unfortunately, the only celebrity I resemble is Anthony Edwards (formerly Dr. Mark Green on ER).
  • The three populations I most resemble from a genetic perspective (besides other Ashkenazic Jews, and, I assume, likely Sephardic Jews as well) are Druze, Bedouin, and Palestinian.
  • They realized that the 9/11 attacks might not be the stunning victory that al-Qaeda and many in the West took them to be at the time, and might in fact more resemble a kamikaze operation that would decimate their ranks.
  • And while Locke claims our ideas of primary qualities resemble the primary qualities in objects, and the ideas of secondary qualities do not resemble their causes in the object, what does ˜resemble™ mean in this context?
  • Michael Farris´ mention of Polish is well suited in this context--it always strikes me how many quite common words in Polish resemble their English counterparts with the only exception they are inflected "in the Polish manner".

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