• IPA: /ɹɪˈzɛmb(ə)l/

resemble (resembles, present participle resembling; past and past participle resembled)

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
   • c. 1596–1598, William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     We will resemble you in that.

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 230b.

     But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind.

   The twins resemble each other.
2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     And th'other all yclad in garments light, / Discolour'd like to womanish disguise, / He did resemble to his Ladie bright [...].

3. (obsolete, transitive)  To counterfeit; to imitate.

   • They can so well resemble man's speech.

4. (obsolete, transitive)  To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.

• mirror
• duplicate
• look like

• French: ressembler
• German: ähneln, gleichen
• Italian: rassomigliare, somigliare, assomigliare, arieggiare
• Portuguese: assemelhar, semelhar
• Russian: походи́ть
• Spanish: asemejar, semejar, parecerse