likening in English

verb
1
point out the resemblance of someone or something to.
they likened the reigning emperor to a god

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1. Ironically likening Bathos to the depths of

2. What was my grandfather likening to a harness and bit?

3. Synonyms for Allegorizing include assimilating, analogizing, comparing, equating, likening, associating, bracketing, classing, grouping and matching

4. Synonyms for metAphorizing include analogizing, comparing, equating, likening, bracketing, assimilating, relating, matching, paralleling and parallelling

5. Moreover, by likening non-Jews to “little dogs,” not wild dogs, Jesus softened the comparison.

6. Therefore, to put forward divine truths by likening them to corporeal things does not befit this science.

7. His Jedi mind tricks include likening PG Jason Williams to a Nazi radical in a pregame film session.

8. Gaga addressed the leak in the 43rd episode of Transmission Gagavision, likening it to a disembodiment, saying, "A slow death!

9. As we are forced to listen to Donald Trump’s racist and misogynistic Blarings about deporting undocumented immigrants and likening women …

10. The passage contains a metaphor likening women to ripened fruits, so Bloodripe is easily defined as fully ripe (although it’s quite an ironic adjective for a paedophile, such as

11. Likening Trump to Jonas Salk, Mark Levin Bemoans that the former president is not getting more praise Written by Media Matters Staff Published 03/11/21 1:15 PM EST

12. Clapper is the fastest-growing social platform that people are likening to TikTok because it allows users to share the latest trends and their real lives as they unfold via shortform video

13. Paul used the word ka·taʹra in likening Christians who fall away after having partaken of holy spirit to the “ground” that is unresponsive to rain and that produces only thorns and thistles (Heb 6:7, 8), while Peter uses the same word to describe as “accursed” those who are covetous, who “have eyes full of adultery” and entice unsteady souls. —2Pe 2:14.