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resemble

/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/

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What does resemble mean?

verb

  1. To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
More meanings (3)

verb

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

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/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/

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Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
They run very awkwardly, and when running out of danger, from their elevated tails and short front legs much resemble great rats.
Charles DarwinThe Voyage of the BeagleProject Gutenberg ebook #944
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But as the day wore on, the picnic idea had languished, and the stone-breaking grew more and more to resemble hard work.
Mary Esther Miller MacGregorThe Black-Bearded Barbarian : The Life of George Leslie Mackay of FormosaProject Gutenberg ebook #1759
These tomes resemble nothing so much as sticks of chocolate, and, however useful they may be to the student, the clay MSS.
Andrew LangThe LibraryProject Gutenberg ebook #2018
Wolf-Children.--It is interesting to know to what degree a human being will resemble a beast when deprived of the association with man.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747