"resemble" meaning in English

See resemble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AcpoKrane-resemble.wav Forms: resembles [present, singular, third-person], resembling [participle, present], resembled [participle, past], resembled [past]
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman, Old French resembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”). By surface analysis, re- + semble. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*sem-}}, {{uder|en|xno|-}} Anglo-Norman, {{uder|en|fro|resembler}} Old French resembler, {{surf|en|re-|semble}} By surface analysis, re- + semble Head templates: {{en-verb}} resemble (third-person singular simple present resembles, present participle resembling, simple past and past participle resembled)
  1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-resemble-en-verb-UBUoJaYU
  2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken. Tags: archaic, transitive Categories (topical): Appearance
    Sense id: en-resemble-en-verb-XPhg1r7Y Disambiguation of Appearance: 14 41 13 32
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-resemble-en-verb-r5WiIJzZ
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-resemble-en-verb-efWI5E~w Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with re-, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Albanian translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Friulian translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Ingrian translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Lombard translations, Terms with Luxembourgish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norman translations, Terms with Northern Kurdish translations, Terms with Norwegian translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Quechua translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Romansch translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Sardinian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Sicilian translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Venetian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 25 12 35 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with re-: 31 13 14 42 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 20 12 8 59 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 16 14 13 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Albanian translations: 13 14 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 13 14 13 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 13 14 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 17 14 13 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 14 14 14 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 12 13 19 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 15 8 8 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 16 14 14 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 13 13 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Friulian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 14 13 14 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 15 28 11 46 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 12 31 13 44 Disambiguation of Terms with Icelandic translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Ingrian translations: 13 11 12 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 21 11 11 58 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Lombard translations: 12 10 16 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Luxembourgish translations: 14 12 14 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 14 19 12 55 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Norman translations: 13 14 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Northern Kurdish translations: 8 6 6 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 14 12 15 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 14 13 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 15 15 14 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 13 13 17 57 Disambiguation of Terms with Quechua translations: 13 11 12 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Romansch translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 11 11 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Sardinian translations: 13 14 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 13 13 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Sicilian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 13 14 17 56 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 15 12 12 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 14 14 13 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 14 14 13 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 13 14 14 59 Disambiguation of Terms with Venetian translations: 13 23 12 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mirror, duplicate, look like, resemble, smack of Related terms: I resemble that remark Translations (to be like or similar to something else): shëmbëllej (Albanian), ngjaj (Albanian), شَبِهَ (šabiha) (Arabic), مَاثَلَ (māṯala) (Arabic), oxşamaq (Azerbaijani), bənzəmək (Azerbaijani), быць падо́бным (bycʹ padóbnym) [imperfective] (Belarusian), приличам (priličam) (Bulgarian), semblar (Catalan), 相似 (xiāngsì) (Chinese Mandarin), připomínat [imperfective] (Czech), podobat se [imperfective] (Czech), ligne (Danish), minde om (Danish), gelijken op (Dutch), lijken op (Dutch), n-H-Hr:r (nḥr) (Egyptian), t-w&t-A53-Y1V (twt) (Egyptian), simili (Esperanto), muistuttaa (Finnish), ressembler à (French), someâ (Friulian), semellar (Galician), asemellar (Galician), ähneln (German), gleichen (German), μοιάζω (moiázo) (Greek), hasonlít (Hungarian), líkjast (Icelandic), voittiissa (Ingrian), is cosúil le (Irish), rassomigliare (Italian), somigliare (Italian), assomigliare (Italian), arieggiare (Italian), 似ている (nite iru) (alt: にている) (Japanese), 비슷하다 (biseuthada) (Korean), 닮다 (damda) (Korean), 같다 (gatda) (Korean), similō (Latin), someià (Lombard), gläichen (Luxembourgish), āhuahua (Maori), kāhukahuka (Maori), āhukahuka (Maori), r'semblier (Norman), lê çûn (Northern Kurdish), mînîn (Northern Kurdish), şibîn (Northern Kurdish), likne (Norwegian), minne om (Norwegian), semblar (Occitan), مانستن (mânestan) (Persian), شباهت داشتن (šabâhat dâštan) (Persian), być podobnym [imperfective] (Polish), przypominać [imperfective] (Polish), przypomnieć [perfective] (Polish), assemelhar-se a (Portuguese), semelhar (Portuguese), rikch'akuy (Quechua), semăna (Romanian), sumegliar (Romansch), semegliar (Romansch), samagliear (Romansch), sumiglier (Romansch), sumagliar (Romansch), sumaglier (Romansch), походи́ть (poxodítʹ) (alt: + на) [imperfective] (Russian), напомина́ть (napominátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), быть похо́жим (bytʹ poxóžim) (alt: + на) [imperfective] (Russian), име́ть схо́дство (imétʹ sxódstvo) (alt: + с) [imperfective] (Russian), assimizare (Sardinian), simizare (Sardinian), assimbillai (Sardinian), simbilai (Sardinian), assimbigiai (Sardinian), assemizare (Sardinian), atipizare (Sardinian), aerai (Sardinian), agghentinare (Sardinian), sličiti (Serbo-Croatian), assimigghiari (Sicilian), podobať sa [imperfective] (Slovak), asemejarse a (Spanish), semejar (Spanish), parecerse (Spanish), likna (Swedish), benzemek (Turkish), бу́ти поді́бним (búty podíbnym) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), бу́ти схо́жим (búty sxóžym) [imperfective] (Ukrainian), somejar (Venetian), somegiar (Venetian), somiar (Venetian)
Disambiguation of 'to be like or similar to something else': 45 7 1 47

Inflected forms

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      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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          "text": "We will resemble you in that.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.",
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          "text": "And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].",
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          "text": "They can so well resemble mans speech.",
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          "text": "And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,\nAnd with the ſame proportion of Elements,\nReſolue, I hope we are reſembled,\nUowing our loues to equall death and life, […]",
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          "ref": "1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion:",
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      "word": "shëmbëllej"
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      "word": "مَاثَلَ"
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      "word": "oxşamaq"
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ca",
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      "word": "semblar"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "xiāngsì",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "相似"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "cs",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "da",
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      "word": "ligne"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "da",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "minde om"
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      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "lijken op"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "egy",
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      "roman": "nḥr",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "egy",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
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      "word": "muistuttaa"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "fur",
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      "word": "someâ"
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      "code": "gl",
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      "word": "asemellar"
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      "word": "ähneln"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "de",
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      "word": "gleichen"
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      "code": "el",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "hu",
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      "code": "is",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "izh",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ga",
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      "word": "is cosúil le"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "it",
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      "word": "rassomigliare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somigliare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assomigliare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "arieggiare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "alt": "にている",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nite iru",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "似ている"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "biseuthada",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "비슷하다"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "damda",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ko",
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      "roman": "gatda",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "kmr",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "lê çûn"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "kmr",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "şibîn"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "similō"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "lmo",
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      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "someià"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "gläichen"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "āhuahua"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "kāhukahuka"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "āhukahuka"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "r'semblier"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "likne"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "minne om"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semblar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mânestan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "مانستن"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šabâhat dâštan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "شباهت داشتن"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "być podobnym"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "przypominać"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "przypomnieć"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assemelhar-se a"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semelhar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "rikch'akuy"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semăna"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumegliar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semegliar"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "samagliear"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumiglier"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    },
    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumaglier"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "alt": "+ на",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poxodítʹ",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "походи́ть"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
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      "roman": "napominátʹ",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "напомина́ть"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
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      "roman": "bytʹ poxóžim",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "быть похо́жим"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
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      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "imétʹ sxódstvo",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "atipizare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "aerai"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "agghentinare"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sličiti"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assimigghiari"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "podobať sa"
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      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "asemejarse a"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semejar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "parecerse"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "likna"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "benzemek"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "búty podíbnym",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
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      "word": "бу́ти поді́бним"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "búty sxóžym",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бу́ти схо́жим"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somejar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somegiar"
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    {
      "_dis1": "45 7 1 47",
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somiar"
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          "text": "The twins resemble each other.",
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          "ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:",
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          "ref": "1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:",
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          "ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].",
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        "transitive"
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      "categories": [
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
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        {
          "ref": "1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:",
          "text": "They can so well resemble mans speech.",
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        "To counterfeit; to imitate."
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          "ref": "c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vi:",
          "text": "And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,\nAnd with the ſame proportion of Elements,\nReſolue, I hope we are reſembled,\nUowing our loues to equall death and life, […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion:",
          "text": "they resemble themselves to the swans",
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        "(obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar."
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      "word": "mirror"
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      "word": "duplicate"
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      "word": "look like"
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      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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      "source": "Thesaurus:resemble",
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    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "shëmbëllej"
    },
    {
      "code": "sq",
      "lang": "Albanian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "ngjaj"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "šabiha",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "شَبِهَ"
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      "code": "ar",
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      "roman": "māṯala",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "مَاثَلَ"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "oxşamaq"
    },
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "bənzəmək"
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    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "bycʹ padóbnym",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "быць падо́бным"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "priličam",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "приличам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semblar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiāngsì",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "相似"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "připomínat"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "podobat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "ligne"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "minde om"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "gelijken op"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "lijken op"
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    {
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "roman": "nḥr",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "n-H-Hr:r"
    },
    {
      "code": "egy",
      "lang": "Egyptian",
      "roman": "twt",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "t-w&t-A53-Y1V"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "simili"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "muistuttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "ressembler à"
    },
    {
      "code": "fur",
      "lang": "Friulian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "someâ"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semellar"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "asemellar"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "ähneln"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "gleichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "moiázo",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "μοιάζω"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "hasonlít"
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    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "líkjast"
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    {
      "code": "izh",
      "lang": "Ingrian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "voittiissa"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "is cosúil le"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "rassomigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assomigliare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "arieggiare"
    },
    {
      "alt": "にている",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nite iru",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "似ている"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "biseuthada",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "비슷하다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "damda",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "닮다"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "gatda",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "같다"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "lê çûn"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "mînîn"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "şibîn"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "similō"
    },
    {
      "code": "lmo",
      "lang": "Lombard",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "someià"
    },
    {
      "code": "lb",
      "lang": "Luxembourgish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "gläichen"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "āhuahua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "kāhukahuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "āhukahuka"
    },
    {
      "code": "nrf",
      "lang": "Norman",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "r'semblier"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "likne"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "minne om"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semblar"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "mânestan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "مانستن"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "šabâhat dâštan",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "شباهت داشتن"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "być podobnym"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "przypominać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "przypomnieć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assemelhar-se a"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semelhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "rikch'akuy"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semăna"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumegliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semegliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "samagliear"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumiglier"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumagliar"
    },
    {
      "code": "rm",
      "lang": "Romansch",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sumaglier"
    },
    {
      "alt": "+ на",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poxodítʹ",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "походи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napominátʹ",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "напомина́ть"
    },
    {
      "alt": "+ на",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bytʹ poxóžim",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "быть похо́жим"
    },
    {
      "alt": "+ с",
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "imétʹ sxódstvo",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "име́ть схо́дство"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assimizare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "simizare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assimbillai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "simbilai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assimbigiai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assemizare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "atipizare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "aerai"
    },
    {
      "code": "sc",
      "lang": "Sardinian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "agghentinare"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "sličiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "scn",
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "assimigghiari"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "podobať sa"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "asemejarse a"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "semejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "parecerse"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "likna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "benzemek"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "búty podíbnym",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "бу́ти поді́бним"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "búty sxóžym",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "бу́ти схо́жим"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somejar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somegiar"
    },
    {
      "code": "vec",
      "lang": "Venetian",
      "sense": "to be like or similar to something else",
      "word": "somiar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "resemble"
}

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