RESEMBLE


Meaning of RESEMBLE in English

verb

ADVERB

▪ closely , greatly , strongly , very much

He very much ~s a friend of mine.

▪ in no way , not remotely

He does not ~ his brother in any way.

I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day.

▪ barely

▪ faintly , rather , somewhat , superficially , vaguely

▪ in some respects , in some ways

▪ oddly , uncannily

▪ physically

▪ increasingly

VERB + RESEMBLE

▪ be designed to

The house was designed to ~ a church.

▪ tend to

PREPOSITION

▪ in

The meat ~s chicken in texture.

PHRASES

▪ anything resembling sth

Neither achieved anything resembling their former success.

▪ something resembling sth

a fight for something resembling justice

Resemble is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ father , ↑ mother

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .