Synonyms for resemble
rɪˈzɛm bəlre·sem·ble

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1. resembleverb

   Synonyms:
   look like, duplicate, mirror

2. resembleverb

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

   Synonyms:
   look like, duplicate, mirror

3. resembleverb

   To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.

   Synonyms:
   duplicate, look like, mirror

Princeton's WordNet

1. resembleverb

   appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to

   "She resembles her mother very much"; "This paper resembles my own work"

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1. resembleverb

   Synonyms:
   be like, bear likeness or resemblance to

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1. Michael Every:

   Its effects will likely resemble the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 more than the SARS outbreak in 2003.

2. Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1:

   Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.

3. Samuel Johnson:

   Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

4. President Vladimir Putin:

   Everyone says that the Minsk Agreements must be implemented and then the sanctions issue may be reconsidered, this is beginning to resemble the theater of the absurd because everything essential that needs to be done with regard to implementing the Minsk Agreements is the responsibility of the current Kiev authorities.

5. Hesiod:

   We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.