liken
/ˈlaɪkən/ verbe C2En français : comparer
- Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare. · The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.
Pluriel liken · He/she/it likens · Prétérit likened · Participe passé likened · Forme en -ing likening
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
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- He/she/it
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- Prétérit
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- Participe passé
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- Forme en -ing
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Dans la bibliothèque
No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.
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