Resemble Definition

rĭ-zĕmbəl
resembled, resembles, resembling
verb
To be like or similar to in appearance or nature.
Webster's New World
To exhibit similarity or likeness to.
American Heritage
To liken or compare.
Webster's New World

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

The twins resemble each other.
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Origin of Resemble

  • Middle English resemblen from Old French resembler re- re- sembler to appear (from Latin simulāre to imitate) (from similis like sem-1 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Anglo-Norman, Middle French resembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem").

    From Wiktionary

Resemble Sentence Examples

  • Larkin certainly didn't resemble the sheriff in any way.

  • The present Italian mutual benefit societies resemble the ancient beneficent corporations, of which in some respects they may be considered a continuation.

  • They are compounds which greatly resemble the mixed ethers of the aliphatic series.

  • In Thamnodrilus, as has been pointed out, there are two series of nephridia which resemble those of the Terebelloidea in the different sizes of their funnels.

  • Sometimes the shape of the spider combines with the colour to produce the same effect, as in the species of Uloborus, which as they hang in thin shabby-looking webs exactly resemble fragments of wind-blown rubbish.

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Words Starting With

RRERES

Words Ending With

ELEBLE

Unscrambles

resemble

Words Starting With R and Ending With E

Starts With R & Ends With EStarts With RE & Ends With EStarts With R & Ends With LE

Word Length

8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With R8 Letter Words Ending With E