# resemble

Pronunciation: say "ri-ZEM-buhl" US/UK /ɹɪˈzɛmbəl/, AUS /ɹɪˈzembəl/

## Verb

1. To look or be like someone or something, or to depict one thing as being like another.
   - Simple: To look like or be like someone or something.
   - _The new block of flats resembles an ocean liner run aground in a field._
   - _Few of the sketches resemble the finished painting at all._

## Verb

2. To compare one thing to another; to regard it as similar or liken it. *(archaic)*
   - Simple: In old use, to compare one thing to another.
   - _The chronicler resembles the burning city to a great beacon seen from the hills._
   - _In his sermon he would resemble the restless heart to a ship without a rudder._
3. To counterfeit; to imitate. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: In old use, to copy or imitate something.
4. To cause something to imitate or be like another; to make it similar. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: In old use, to make one thing like another.

## Origin

From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler (also ressembler), formed from re- plus sembler ("to seem"). By surface analysis, re- + semble.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/resemble (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).