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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : lahy-kuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪ kən |
Definition of likened
Origin :- late 13c., "to represent as like," from like (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Likened; likening.
- verb compare
- She was small and slender, but no one had ever likened her to a flower.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- This is what I likened to an embattled phalanx, once before.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- The thirst of the snow fields is most agonizing, and can only be likened to the thirst of the desert.
- Extract from : « The Long Labrador Trail » by Dillon Wallace
- None other can be likened to it in the history of our existence as a republic.
- Extract from : « Latin America and the United States » by Elihu Root
- The soul of man is likened to a charioteer and two steeds, one mortal, the other immortal.
- Extract from : « Meno » by Plato
- It might be likened to the dregs of love, all that remained after the potent wine of it had been drained off.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- There is nothing that can be likened to the first day of love.
- Extract from : « The Great Hunger » by Johan Bojer
- It may be likened to a clock which has not stopped but shows the wrong hour.
- Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
- You will find exactly as I say, for the nature of the bird can be likened to that of man.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- That rows of cup marks have often been likened to footprints.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
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