resemble

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman, Old French resembler, from re- + sembler (“to seem”), synchronically analyzable as re- + semble.

verb

1. (transitive) To be like or similar to (something); to represent as similar.
   The twins resemble each other.
   He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site. 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess
   But what you've just described does resemble a person of that kind. 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b
2. (transitive, now rare, archaic) To compare; to regard as similar, to liken.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To counterfeit; to imitate.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to imitate or be like; to make similar.
   they resemble themselves to the swans 1881, Horace Bushnell, Building Eras in Religion