• enPR: lī'kən, IPA: /ˈlaɪkən/

liken (likens, present participle likening; past and past participle likened)

1. (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