{
    "term": "resemble",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "resemble",
            "heSheIt": "resembles"
        },
        "pastSimple": "resembled",
        "pastParticiple": "resembled",
        "ingForm": "resembling"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to look like or be similar to another person or thing",
            "sensetop": "resemble somebody/something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She closely resembles her sister."
                },
                {
                    "text": "So many hotels resemble each other."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The plant resembles grass in appearance."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He very much resembles a friend of mine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have never seen anything remotely resembling the horrors of that day."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Neither achieved anything resembling their former success."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The house was designed to resemble a church."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The meat resembles chicken in flavour."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fight for something resembling justice"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["closely", "greatly", "strongly"],
                "verb + resemble": ["be designed to", "tend to"],
                "preposition": ["in"],
                "phrases": [
                    "anything resembling something",
                    "something resembling something"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembl/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resemble__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblz/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembles__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembld/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembled__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembling__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembl/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resemble__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblz/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembles__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzembld/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembled__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/rɪˈzemblɪŋ/",
                "audio": "re/resemble/resembling__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French resembler, based on Latin similare (from similis ‘like’)."
}