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resemblest

resemblest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of resemble.

Meaning of 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.
    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...

Origin of resemblest

resemble + -est

Questions about resemblest

What is resemblest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Resemblest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of resemble.

Words near resemblest in the dictionary

  1. resembled
  2. resemblence
  3. resembler
  4. resemblers
  5. resembles
  6. resemblest
  7. resembleth
  8. resembling
  9. resemblingly
  10. reseminate
  11. reseminated

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