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{
"term": "resemble",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "resemble",
"heSheIt": "resembles"
},
"pastSimple": "resembled",
"pastParticiple": "resembled",
"ingForm": "resembling"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to look like or be similar to another person or thing",
"sensetop": "resemble somebody/something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She closely resembles her sister."
},
{
"text": "So many hotels resemble each other."
},
{
"text": "The plant resembles grass in appearance."
},
{
"text": "He very much resembles a friend of mine."
},
{
"text": "I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day."
},
{
"text": "Neither achieved anything resembling their former success."
},
{
"text": "The house was designed to resemble a church."
},
{
"text": "The meat resembles chicken in flavour."
},
{
"text": "a fight for something resembling justice"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["closely", "greatly", "strongly"],
"verb + resemble": ["be designed to", "tend to"],
"preposition": ["in"],
"phrases": [
"anything resembling something",
"something resembling something"
]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembl/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resemble__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblz/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembles__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembld/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembled__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembling__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembl/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resemble__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblz/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembles__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembld/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembled__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblɪŋ/",
"audio": "re/resemble/resembling__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French resembler, based on Latin similare (from similis ‘like’)."
}