Thesaurus: liken
To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
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Definitions
- a. To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
- a. To make or cause to be like.
- v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous
- 1. 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. Matt. vii. 24. 2. To make or cause to be like. [R.] Brougham.
- v:100 v consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous