HOW TO PRONOUNCE
resemble
/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/
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What does resemble mean?
verb
- To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
More meanings (3)
verb
- (archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
- (obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
- (obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
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IPA pronunciation
/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.
They run very awkwardly, and when running out of danger, from their elevated tails and short front legs much resemble great rats.
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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.
These tomes resemble nothing so much as sticks of chocolate, and, however useful they may be to the student, the clay MSS.
Wolf-Children.--It is interesting to know to what degree a human being will resemble a beast when deprived of the association with man.