liken
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Is liken a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber."; "And vvell may the preacher and plovvman be likened together: Firſt, for their labour in all ſeaſons of the year; for there is no time of the year in vvhich the ploughman hath not ſome ſpecial vvork to do. […] And then they alſo may be likened together for the diverſity of vvorks, and variety of offices that they have to do."; "In this ſaing S. Auguſtin likeneth the ſacramentes of the olde lavve in reſpect of the ſacramentes of the nevve lavve vnto childrens games, and our ſacramentes he likeneth to the thinges of more profett, vvhich are to be geuen to the ſonnes of God, vvhen they vvaxe of more age, knovvledge, and ripeneſſe."Antonyms: contrast, unlikentransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "Speech is reason's brother, and a kingly prerogative of man, / That likeneth him to his Maker, who spake, and it was done."Antonyms: unlikenalsorarereflexivetransitive
3. (transitive)raretransitive
4. (intransitive, obsolete) Followed by to: to be like or resemble; also, to become like.intransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary