Likening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LIKENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• LIKEN, to represent as similar
• point out the resemblance of someone or something to
NOUN:
• the act of comparing similarities

Words related to LIKENING

liken9 likened12 likens10

Words that contain LIKENING

dislikening17

How to use LIKENING in a sentence

• He declared that some in authority had come to the country poor, and were now rolling in wealth, likening them to sponges, that have sucked up and devoured the common treasury.
• Even the Japanese, so highly civilized in some respects, look down on women with unfeigned contempt, likening themselves to heaven and the women to earth.
• The only thing an American would think of likening it to would be three carriages of different shapes fastened together.
• Kenny went forth into a world of old houses, apple blossoms and winding roads, likening himself to Peredur who had gone in search of the Holy Grail.
• Carlyle believed this story, but gave it an almost too honorable turn, by likening the inn at Eisenach to the inn at Bethlehem.
• Landor volleyed forth his thunderous praises over her grave, likening her to Juliet and Desdemona.
• My old likening of Boston to Edinburgh has been constantly revived within these last ten days.
• It is impious to insult the vegetables, by likening them either to human creatures or animals.
• James describes consciousness by likening it to a series of waves, each having a crest and sides which correspond to the focus and margin of attention.
• He was fond of likening his suite of office rooms to the bottom of a ship.

Similar words containing LIKEN without suffix ing

liken9 likens10 likened12 disliken13 likeness12 alikeness13 dislikens14 dislikened16 likenesses14 unlikeness14 alikenesses15 dislikeness16 dislikening17 godlikeness17 warlikeness18 ladylikeness20 lifelikeness19 unlikenesses16 childlikeness23 dislikenesses18 godlikenesses19 warlikenesses20 ladylikenesses22 lifelikenesses21 childlikenesses25 gentlemanlikene22 gentlemanlikeness24 gentlemanlikenesses26

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