asemejar

To resemble or liken — used both transitively, comparing one thing to another (asemejar la vida a un viaje), and reflexively, meaning "to look/be alike" (se asemeja mucho a su padre). It's a notch more literary than parecerse a, which is the default in everyday speech.

• El escritor asemeja la vida a un largo viaje. — The writer likens life to a long journey.
• Ella se asemeja mucho a su madre. — She resembles her mother a lot.
• Los dos proyectos se asemejan en su enfoque, aunque no en el resultado. — The two projects are similar in their approach, though not in their outcome.

Using asemejar without a to introduce the point of comparison (asemejar algo a algo) — dropping the a and just saying asemejar algo algo is a common structural error modeled on the English pattern "to liken X Y" instead of "to liken X to Y."