Definitions for resembles

resembles re·sem·ble

Spelling: [ri-zem-buh l]
IPA: /rɪˈzɛm bəl/

Resembles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in resembles (beeelmrss).

Definitions for resembles

verb (used with object)

  1. to be like or similar to.
  2. Archaic. to liken or compare.
  3. to be like or similar to.
  4. Archaic. to liken or compare.

Origin of resembles

1300-50; Middle English resemblen Middle French resembler, Old French, equivalent to re- re- + sembler to seem, be like Latin similāre, derivative of similis like; see

Examples for resembles

What it did not resemble was any other bookstore in the nation.

After a few hundred years, these voices start to resemble doomsday cultists—the end is often heralded but never delivered.

The HL Tauri system we see today may not resemble the final form it takes after a few more million years.

They all had a human form and did not resemble their mother.

And this is where the plague outbreak does resemble Ebola—as a grim reminder of the consequences of our global interconnectedness.

It is our duty to resemble him as much as we can; that is to say, as much as an ape can resemble a man.

If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

I earnestly hope it may not resemble any type of death to which we are liable.

A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.

I answered that there was every reason why I should resemble her.

The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Sometimes it resembles a spider's web when it is called arachnoid.

It occupies a two-story apartment in central Kiev that resembles a makeshift wartime command center.

What resembles a fishing lure dangles from his ear, a spinner bait designed to attract bass.

It resembles in form C. pyxidata, but it is quite a distinct species.

It also resembles those of a 1st-century sect leader in Palestine who was also popular with the poor.

Sergei is an ex-military man who resembles Vladimir Putin, and he used to see Russia as a brother nation.

Among the 50 new works included is a shawl made of used tea bags that resembles a ceremonial cloak.

“So you think Mrs. Corcoran Dunn resembles her, do you,” he observed.

The caterpillar, for example, resembles the worm which is the ancestor of the insects.

Word Value for resembles
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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