Word Meanings - RESEMBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.

Additional info about word: RESEMBLE

sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. 2. To liken; to compare; to represent as like. The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright. Spenser. 3. To counterfeit; to imitate. "They can so well resemble man's speech." Holland. 4. To cause to imitate or be like. H. Bushnell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESEMBLE)

• Approximate
• Approach
• resemble
• border
• abut
• near
• trench
• Imitate
• Represent
• copy
• follow
• portray
• depict
• repeat
• pattern after
• mock
• ape
• counterfeit
• mimic
• Portray
• delineate
• reproduce exhibit
• personate
• state
• indicate
• embody
• enact
• illustrate
• denote
• play
• dramatize

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESEMBLE)

• Expose
• unmask
• detect
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to RESEMBLE)

• REPEAT
  To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
  To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• DELINEATE
  Delineated; portrayed.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• REPEATEDLY
  More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
• DETECTOR BAR
  A bar, connected with a switch, longer than the distance between any two consecutive wheels of a train , laid inside a rail and operated by the wheels so that the switch cannot be thrown until all the train is past the switch.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• EXHIBITIONER
  One who has a pension or allowance granted for support. A youth who had as an exhibitioner from Christ's Hospital. G. Eliot.
• MIMICRY
  Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, -- a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies;
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• ENACTURE
  Enactment; resolution. Shak.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• KATASTATE
  A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• BAYOU STATE
  Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.