Resemble vs Semble - What's the difference?
resemble | semble |
(transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
* Shakespeare
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To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
(obsolete) To counterfeit; to imitate.
* Holland
(obsolete) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
(legal) It seems; it appears that
To imitate; to make a representation or likeness.
* Prior
As verbs the difference between resemble and semble
is that resemble is To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar while semble is it seems; it appears that.As an adjective semble is
like; resembling.resemble
English
Verb
- We will resemble you in that.
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- But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.
- The twins resemble each other.
- And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].
- They can so well resemble man's speech.
Synonyms
* mirror * duplicate * look likesemble
English
(wikipedia semble)Verb
Verb
(sembl)- Where sembling art may carve the fair effect.
