Look like
Look like verb - Bear a physical resemblance to.
Pretend to be and look like are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Pretend to be" instead a verb phrase "Look like".
Pretend to be
Look like and pretend to be are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Look like" instead a verb phrase "Pretend to be".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- play and look like
- play and pretend to be
- sham and look like
- sham and pretend to be
- caricature and look like
- caricature and pretend to be
- match and look like
- match and pretend to be
- assume and look like
- assume and pretend to be
- follow and look like
- follow and pretend to be
- parallel and look like
- parallel and pretend to be
Both terms in one sentence
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But Not Too Black: Deliberately invoked, and Aveline can use this to her advantage because she can put on a dress to look like a member of the aristocracy, or put on rags to pretend to be a slave.
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Jason and the Pyrrans pretend to be yet another clan with Kerk as the chief of the clan and Jason as a Wandering Minstrel who married into it (Jason, try as he might, doesn't look like a Pyrran).
Source: Literature / Deathworld -
You Are Who You Eat: Eating people allows non-humans to pretend to be human, and sometimes look like the person that was eaten.
Source: Shapeshifting
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