Pronunciation Verb
liken (likens, present participle likening; past and past participle likened)
- (transitive, followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter I, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (
please specify ), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292 ↗, book IV:
- The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.
- French: comparer
- German: vergleichen
- Russian: сра́внивать
- Spanish: comparar
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