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Verb compare has 4 senses
- compare - examine and note the similarities or differences of; "John compared his haircut to his friend's"; "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"
--1 is one way to analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- compare - be comparable; "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"
--2 is one way to be
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- compare, liken, equate - consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"
--3 is one way to study, consider
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- compare - to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb
--4 is one way to inflect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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