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Answer for the clue ""Things aren't always what they ___" ", 4 letters:
seem

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Word definitions for seem in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Seem \Seem\ (s[=e]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Seemed (s[=e]md); p. pr. & vb. n. Seeming .] [OE. semen to seem, to become, befit, AS. s[=e]man to satisfy, pacify; akin to Icel. s[ae]ma to honor, to bear with, conform to, s[ae]mr becoming, fit, s[=o]ma to beseem, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (lb en copulative) To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as.

Usage examples of seem.

The Heir-Empress was an Aberrant, and the Empress in her hubris still seemed intent on putting her on the throne.

A shadow seemed to settle on his heart as he thought of the Aberrant lady they had met in Axekami.

In truth, she wondered that Tane did not suspect Asara of being an Aberrant, but it seemed that he would rather not know.

It seems likely that Raeder took this step largely because he wanted to anticipate any sudden aberration of his unpredictable Leader.

Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.

I am charged with aiding and abetting his escape it seems to me that I have a right to know who he is.

So they took counsel together, and to some it seemed better to abide the onset on their vantage ground.

It bore both the rich aroma of leaves being burnt in the fall and the faint perfume of wildflowers ablow in the spring, but it also held a third attar which seemed to be the breath of the Wind itself which none could ever set name to.

In many of his contemporaries also much the same fluctuation of mood was occurring, and to them as to Paul it seemed that the issue lay between the old faith, however modernized, and the complete abnegation of human dignity.

It is one of a small group of diseases characterized by the production of abnormally high quantities of urine, so that water seemed simply to pass through the body in a hurry.

Walgun, and though the place seemed deserted, an abo in a singlet and shorts eventually answered the blare of our horn.

Tuck looked to Abo, who seemed satisfied that the chief was backing him up.

Men were started aboard this ship, it seemed, even when they were doing their work efficiently.

So they abode a little, and the more part of what talk there was came from the Lady, and she was chiefly asking Ralph of his home in Upmeads, and his brethren and kindred, and he told her all openly, and hid naught, while her voice ravished his very soul from him, and it seemed strange to him, that such an one should hold him in talk concerning these simple matters and familiar haps, and look on him so kindly and simply.

A swarm of birds-gulls and ternswas wheeling over half an acre of water that seemed to be aboil with living things.