liken
liken
Definition
liken (līk′ən)
transitive verb
to represent or describe as being like, or similar; compare
liken
Synonyms
liken
Usage Examples
Object
- situation: Jesus likened the situation to an earthly father being asked for something by his child.
- process: Maharishi likened this process to adding candles in a darkened room.
- experience: He likened the existing customer experience in mobile retail to travel agents, where customers wait for their turn with no dedicated areas.
- man: Norwid likens the man who spurns memory to a child in a moving cart thinking the trees are moving.
- church: St. Paul likened the Church to the human body -- " One body, many parts " .
Subject
- writer: The Essenes were likened by the classical writers to the Pythagoreans who did not drink wine or eat flesh and remained chaste.
Modifying Another Word
- once: The package deal with style A Club Med ski holiday was once likened to going to Butlins on snow.
- often: Monsoon clouds are often likened to Krishna, finally arriving to quench the thirst of his lovers.
- sometimes: Go, the national game of Japan The national game of Japan, Go is sometimes likened to two armies settling an unpopulated land.
- even: One person even likened the noise to that of a refrigerator.
- always: I always likened it to the coal mine or the mill in a small village.
- only: I can only liken getting AVDC moving to doing similar to a monolithic pachyderm.
Followed by a transitive particle
- unto: This narrow pathway of earth, the most westerly point of England has been likened unto the snout of an alligator!
Infinitive complement
- speed: The process can be likened to speed dating in that we help you meet other companies through a networking venue.
Preposition: in
- size: The object, which was likened in size to a commercial airliner, slowly rotated above the quiet motorway.
Preposition: unto
- virgin: Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Preposition: by
- writer: The Essenes were likened by the classical writers to the Pythagoreans who did not drink wine or eat flesh and remained chaste.
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