resemble
[ri-zem-buh l]
- to be like or similar to.
- Archaic. to liken or compare.
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Origin of resemble
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Examples from the Web for resemble
Contemporary Examples
A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.
What it did not resemble was any other bookstore in the nation.
The Bookstore That Bewitched Mick Jagger, John Lennon, and Greta GarboFelice Picano
December 16, 2014
And this is where the plague outbreak does resemble Ebola—as a grim reminder of the consequences of our global interconnectedness.
After a few hundred years, these voices start to resemble doomsday cultists—the end is often heralded but never delivered.
The HL Tauri system we see today may not resemble the final form it takes after a few more million years.
Historical Examples
I answered that there was every reason why I should resemble her.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10)Maria Edgeworth
It is our duty to resemble him as much as we can; that is to say, as much as an ape can resemble a man.
Initiation into PhilosophyEmile Faguet
I earnestly hope it may not resemble any type of death to which we are liable.
The Room in the Dragon VolantJ. Sheridan LeFanu
They all had a human form and did not resemble their mother.
The Chinese Fairy BookVarious
resemble
- (tr) to possess some similarity to; be like
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French resembler, from re- + sembler to look like, from Latin similis like
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Word Origin and History for resemble
v.
mid-14c., from Old French resembler "belike" (12c., Modern French ressemble), from re-, intensive prefix, + sembler "to appear, to seem, be like," from Latin simulare "to copy" (see similar (adj.)). Related: Resembled; resembling.
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