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/lˈaɪkən/ Listen

verb

Liken v. t. (past & past part. likened; pres. part. likening)

To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage. "Whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man which built his house upon a rock."

To make or cause to be like. (R.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Liken" Quotes from Famous Books

... TRUEBRIDGE. I do not mean to liken him to CHARSLEY, for no more unselfish and kind-hearted being than JOHNNIE ever breathed. But was there ever a stone that rolled more constantly and gathered less moss? Yet no stroke could subdue his inconquerable cheerfulness. Time after time ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 103, November 26, 1892 • Various

... great discovery is the Magnetization of Light, which I should liken to the Weisshorn ...

— Faraday As A Discoverer • John Tyndall

... said, A teller and not a maker, one that trusts and loves the past; I might liken myself to our ...

— The Sayings Of Confucius • Confucius

... of a few warm countries, where this animal grows to a large size, and is highly valued, the Jackass or Donkey is everywhere considered a stupid beast, a lazy beast, an obstinate beast, and very often a vicious beast. To liken any one to a Jackass is to use very ...

— Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy • Frank Richard Stockton

... "Do you dare to liken me to a common robber and murderer? Take care you do not experience the same fate as that with which you threaten me, with this difference only, that the hangman—the common hangman of Lancaster—shall serve your turn. I am come hither to arrest a notorious ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

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