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)
- To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
- The twins resemble each other.
- 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
- 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....
- 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...
- And ſince we all haue ſuckt one wholſome aire,
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.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: resemblest (page history and authors); resemble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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