Resemble is defined as to look like something or someone else or to have similar features as something or someone else.
(verb)When you look sort of like a celebrity, this is an example of a situation where you resemble a celebrity.
See resemble in Webster's New World College Dictionary
transitive verb resembled, resembling
Origin: ME resemblen < OFr resembler < re-, again + sembler < L simulare: see simulate
See resemble in American Heritage Dictionary 4
transitive verb re·sem·bled, re·sem·bling, re·sem·bles
Origin:
Origin: Middle English resemblen
Origin: , from Old French resembler
Origin: : re-, re-
Origin: + sembler, to appear (from Latin simulāre, to imitate, from similis, like; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots)
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