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liken

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lik⋅en

  [lahy-kuhn]
–verb (used with object)
to represent as similar or like; compare: to liken someone to a weasel.
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Origin:
1275–1325; ME liknen. See like 1 , -en 1
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lik·en   (lī'kən)   
tr.v.   lik·ened, lik·en·ing, lik·ens
To see, mention, or show as similar; compare.

[Middle English liknen, from like, similar; see like2.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

liken 
c.1280, "to represent as like," from like (adj.).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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