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
Even Pitcher’s face relaxed into something resembling animation.
"It could not have been someone resembling him?"
Twice I have with my own ears heard the sound which resembled the distant baying of a hound.
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.”
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