Verb

(emulat)

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

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(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device

Verb

(transitive)  To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

* Shakespeare

We will resemble you in that.

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* 2005 , .

But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

The twins resemble each other.

To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

(obsolete)  To counterfeit; to imitate.

* Holland

They can so well resemble man's speech.

(obsolete)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.