resemble

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.

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See resemble in Webster's New World College Dictionary

transitive verb resembled, resembling

  1. to be like or similar to in appearance or nature
  2. Archaic to liken or compare

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
To exhibit similarity or likeness to.

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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Related Forms:

  • re·semˈbler noun

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