resemble
/ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/ verb B1- To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. · The twins resemble each other.
He/she/it resembles · Past resembled · Past participle resembled · -ing form resembling
Verb forms
- Base form
- resemble
- He/she/it
- resembles
- Past
- resembled
- Past participle
- resembled
- -ing form
- resembling
From the library
Well, I at least resemble the disciples of Esculapius in one thing [people spoke in this style in 1815], that of not being able to call a day my own, not even that of my betrothal.”
“Look!” said Faria, showing to the young man a slender stick about six inches long, and much resembling the size of the handle of a fine painting-brush, to the end of which was tied, by a piece of thread, one of those cartilages of which the abbé had before spoken to Dantès; it was pointed, and divided at the nib like an ordinary pen.
“Why your writing exactly resembles that of the accusation.”
"It could not have been someone resembling him?"
Learn resemble in real texts
With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.