| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·sem·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -z m b l |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: re·sem·bled, re·sem·bling, re·sem·bles
To exhibit similarity or likeness to. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English resemblen, from Old French resembler : re-, re- + sembler, to appear (from Latin simul re, to imitate, from similis, like; see sem-1 in Appendix I). | | OTHER FORMS: | re·sembler —NOUN
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