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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : lahy-kuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlaɪ kən |
Definition of likening
Origin :- late 13c., "to represent as like," from like (adj.) + -en (1). Related: Likened; likening.
- verb compare
- If she says she is sorry for likening me to Winfield, I will tell her who sent the roses.
- Extract from : « Polly in New York » by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
- To the first part alone he gave his approval, likening it to the Song of Solomon.
- Extract from : « Balzac » by Frederick Lawton
- He was fond of likening his suite of office rooms to the bottom of a ship.
- Extract from : « Whirligigs » by O. Henry
- It is hard to say what "exquisite reason" Cervantes can have had for likening a girl's eyes to emeralds above all other gems.
- Extract from : « The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- The policeman's figure of speech, likening the lodgers to "herrings in a barrel," accurately described the scene.
- Extract from : « The Fallen Leaves » by Wilkie Collins
- But her nature, which the lover had greatly belied in likening it to her name, was not cold enough for this.
- Extract from : « Orley Farm » by Anthony Trollope
- Likening theyselves to the quality, as though they was estated folk, or the like o' that!
- Extract from : « Barchester Towers » by Anthony Trollope
- A scientific theory has been described as "the likening of our imaginings to what we actually observe."
- Extract from : « The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry » by M. M. Pattison Muir
- He tried an explanation by likening the dissension to a wrangle in a civilised family over an unjust division of property.
- Extract from : « The Celt and Saxon, Complete » by George Meredith
- He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.
- Extract from : « Form and Function » by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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