Definition of "likened" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of liken. (verb)

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• "It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals and gay marriage -- but our mortgage bank, Chase Home Weasel, finally 'fessed up, in writing, to wrongdoing."
• "It didn't quite fold -- like the cheap camera to which Rabbi Yehua Levin likened Carl Paladino after the latter backed off his nasty remarks about homosexuals ..."
• "OK, Einstein likened spacetime to the aether because it acts upon and can be perturbed by matter."