resemble

Definition

To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.

Etymology

From Middle English resemblen, from Anglo-Norman resembler, ressembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble.

Example Sentences

• "The twins resemble each other."
• "We will resemble you in that."
• "He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site."