liken

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Infinitive
to liken

Third person singular
likens

Simple past
likened

Past participle
likened

Present participle
likening

to liken (third-person singular simple present likens, present participle likening, simple past and past participle likened)

  1. (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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