liken
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[edit] Etymology
From Middle English liken (“to compare; to be comparable, be equal; to form; to be appropriate”), equivalent to like + -en.
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liken (third-person singular simple present likens, present participle likening, simple past and past participle likened)
- (transitive, followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else).
- The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber.
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compare
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liken
