resemble
verb /rɪˈzembl/
/rɪˈzembl/
[no passive] not used in the progressive tensesVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they resemble | /rɪˈzembl/ /rɪˈzembl/ |
| he / she / it resembles | /rɪˈzemblz/ /rɪˈzemblz/ |
| past simple resembled | /rɪˈzembld/ /rɪˈzembld/ |
| past participle resembled | /rɪˈzembld/ /rɪˈzembld/ |
| past simple resembling | /rɪˈzemblɪŋ/ /rɪˈzemblɪŋ/ |
| past participle resembling | /rɪˈzemblɪŋ/ /rɪˈzemblɪŋ/ |
- resemble somebody/something to look like or be similar to another person or thing
- She closely resembles her sister.
- So many hotels resemble each other.
- The plant resembles grass in appearance.
Extra Examples- He very much resembles a friend of mine.
- I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day.
- Neither achieved anything resembling their former success.
- The house was designed to resemble a church.
- The meat resembles chicken in flavour.
- a fight for something resembling justice
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- closely
- greatly
- strongly
- …
- be designed to
- tend to
- in
- anything resembling something
- something resembling something
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French resembler, based on Latin similare (from similis ‘like’).