resembleverb [ T ]
uk/rɪˈzem.bəl/us/rɪˈzem.bəl/C1 to look like or be like someone or something:
You resemble your mother very closely.
After the earthquake, the city resembled a battlefield.
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- The overlapping slates of the roofs in the mountain village resembled fish scales.
- His latest sculpture resembles an enormous seashell.
- That actor really resembles my brother-in-law.
- The finished model should resemble the one in the picture.
- The twins resembled each other more strongly when they were young.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetype
- be sb all over idiom
- betoken
- by way of idiom
- genre
- hold
- mark
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- quintessential
- representative
- stand
- true
- trust
- trust sb (to do sth)! idiom
- typical
- typically
- typify
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Being or appearing similar or the same