resemble

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.
   • The twins resemble each other.
   • 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.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   recall, favor

2. (archaic, transitive) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
   • And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
   • They can so well resemble mans speech.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....
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
   • And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,
     And with the ſame proportion of Elements,
     Reſolue, I hope we are reſembled,
     Uowing our loues to equall death and life, […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
   • they resemble themselves to the swans1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion