English-French translations for liken

• comparer
  Nous sommes loin, très loin, de la situation qui règne aux États-Unis d'Amérique, qu'un orateur de ce matin n'a pourtant pas hésité à comparer avec la Chine. Surely there is no comparison with the situation in the United States of America which, nevertheless, was likened to that in China by another speaker this morning.

Definition of liken

• To compare; to state that is like (something else

Examples

• The physics teacher likened the effect of mass on space to an indentation in a sheet of rubber

Related words

• likeness
• likened
• unlikeness