to represent or describe as being like, or similar (to); compare
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liken
transitive verb
lik·ened, lik·en·ing, lik·ensTo see, mention, or show as similar; compare.
Origin of liken
Middle English liknen from like similar ; see like 2.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Verb
(third-person singular simple present likens, present participle likening, simple past and past participle likened)
- (followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
- The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.
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Origin
From Middle English liken (“to compare; to be comparable, be equal; to form; to be appropriate"), equivalent to like +"Ž -en.
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