lijken
Meaning
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- (copulative) to seem, appear
- (intransitive) to look like, resemble (depict well what it is intended to)
Frequency
Hyphenated as
lij‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɛi̯kə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch geliken, liken, from Old Dutch *gilīkon, from Proto-Germanic *galīkōną.
New
lijk
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the dead but otherwise (mostly) intact body of a human or animal; corpse
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