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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'compare' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions compare verb (compar, ing) (transitive) To assess the similarities (between two things "to compare X and Y" or between one thing and another "to compare X with Y". Having made the comparison with X, one might have found it similar to X or different from X. Astronomers have compared comets to dirty snowballs Compare the tiger's coloration with that of the zebra You can't compare my problems and yours (transitive)(grammar) To form the three degrees of comparison of (an adjective). We compare good as good, better, best (intransitive) To be similar (often used in the negative) A sapling and a fully-grown oak tree do not compare Translations:  German: vergleichen (1), steigern (2)        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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