Verb

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

* Shakespeare

We will resemble you in that.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

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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.

Verb

(head)

(liken)

Verb

(en verb)

To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author= Chico Harlan

, volume=189, issue=2, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Japan pockets the subsidy … , passage=Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."}}