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To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.

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  1. a. To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.
  2. a. To make or cause to be like.
  3. v. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous
  4. v:100 v consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous