to resemble
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2.0
- verb
- /rɪˈzɛmbl/
:
parecerse a
- The puppy resembles its mother, with the same fur pattern and playful nature.
- closely resemble
- in many ways resemble
- more closely resemble
It could never resemble these other societies, right?
- It could never resemble these other societies, right?
- As long as the baby resembles your husband, you're fine.
- I must say in a lot of ways vaping resembles crack cocaine.
- It was brand new, but it kind of resembled nightshade.
- And I would expect it to resemble life on Earth in many ways.
- My hair is what resembles A overgrown mullet.
- It it the cuisine starts to resemble Latin American.
Examples
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And like Japan, both are beginning to resemble economies that have lost their daring.
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But it certainly resembles the drawing that I began with.
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And I would expect it to resemble life on Earth in many ways.
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So now what would resemble these the most?
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So that law says that the sample values resemble population values.
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Make the learning experience resemble the actual application as closely as possible.
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They both resemble the dog in the photo.
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But nowadays, thank goodness, it resembles something closer to, shall we say, a democracy.
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Furthermore, the profiles of the individual clusters closely resembled those of past studies.
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As a result, the Catholic Church in eastern South Dakota has increasingly come to resemble sectarian Protestant churches.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.3
To have a similar appearance to someone or something
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1.0
To be the same color or style as something else
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3.8
Be similar to something in meaning, amount or place
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3.1
Look or behave like an older family member
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How Similar
Surface Forms
Morphology
resemble = semblance (semi-transparent) = re + semble
The verb is related in meaning to the noun 'semblance' (appearance), but 're-' here is not the productive 'again' prefix in modern English and 'semble' is not a standalone English word, so the relation is not fully transparent for learners.
Etymology
Resemble comes from Old French parts re- and sembler, where sembler comes from a root that means 'to be like' and is the same root as similar. So to resemble someone or something is to 'be like' them or to look similar.