Verb (used with object) : to liken someone to a weasel.    From Dictionary.com. 

Harold Wolfson in a conference call likening him to Ken Starr.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2008] Reference

And it is the role of likening which is so important, the role of simile.    From Wordnik.com.  [_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire] Reference

That also brings up another "likening" that many news people seem to want to make and that is comparing Michelle to the famously stylish Jackie Kennedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama's weapon: A dose of homecoming king charm] Reference

"We're kind of likening music to food and shelter in this movie," says Page.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phoenix New Times | Complete Issue] Reference

'likening' is not effected by the parable, but, as the tenses of both verbs show, by the already accomplished fact of His sowing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference

Againe in these likening a wise man to the true louer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference

And in this other likening the forlorne louer to a striken deer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference

Ross remembered Ashe's comparison made the evening before, likening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Key Out of Time] Reference

Thus I dreamed it was, likening smallest things to the greatest, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

A proclamation likening some local party official to Abraham Lincoln?.    From Wordnik.com.  [DeMorning DeBonis: Aug. 20, 2010] Reference

And in these, likening the wise man to the Giant, the foole to the Dwarfe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arte of English Poesie] Reference

He made the retrograde step of likening the head of insects to a single segment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

Air landed last year, likening it to work from Salman Rushdie and Thomas Pynchon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

Yes, the "" stigma '' is fading, says Styron, likening it to the once unmentionable cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking The Silence] Reference

Some get a "floating" or "drifting" feeling, likening the experience to lying on deep clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference

"This project needed to be finished," Mr. Miles said, likening the task to a forensic investigation.    From Wordnik.com.  [When His Music Stopped, Their Work Began] Reference

Certainly he saw himself that way, quoting Winston Churchill and likening his crusade to World War II.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Crimebuster's Fall] Reference

"I want to get you out of your coffin," she says, likening my daytime sleep schedule to that of a vampire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burning The Midnight Oil] Reference

Outspoken British academic Richard Dawkins has sparked outrage by likening the burqa to a "full bin liner.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard Dawkins Likens Burqas To Trash Bags, Speaks Of 'Visceral Revulsion' To Islamic Veils] Reference

Starr feels personally wounded by the attacks, and has taken to likening the Clintonites to the Nixon White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Most Dangerous Man In Washington] Reference

Longtime NFL agent Ralph Cindrich quickly fired a return volley likening college coaches 'cleanliness to that of bed bugs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The blame game] Reference

Ravasi dismisses the book as preposterous propaganda, likening it to Dan Brown's accounts of the Vatican's secret societies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Breaks Its Da Vinci Code] Reference

"They know what to do -- it's like sleeper cells that get activated," he says, likening the players to "political terrorists.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Bush's Sleeper Cells] Reference

Next they'll be likening President Obama to poor, misunderstood Darth Vader, whom people mistrusted only because he was black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Community of Notions] Reference

Conservatives 'rhetoric on this issue is particularly insulting, likening the human birthing process to that of farm animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michelle Chen: Gendering the Birthright Citizenship Debate] Reference

But he was quite comfortable likening France's 6 million Muslims to a clandestine army readying for an inevitable clash of cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Town Divided] Reference

Our friends at StyleList spotted this magnificent photo of the 50-year-old actor in Dublin, likening him to a made-over Susan Boyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sean Penn Wears A Full Face Of Makeup (PHOTO)] Reference

"Buster Brown," said his wife, Lisi Tribble, affectionately likening Mr. Russell and his signature locks to the impish comic-book lad.    From Wordnik.com.  [At War With Zombies, Boredom and Ken Russell] Reference

They cite the lore of the salmon, and the pivotal role it plays in the culture of the region, likening it to the bison or the bald eagle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Better Red Than Dead] Reference