resemble = look like... ??? = sounds like... ??? = smells like
The verb resemble is typically used to denote similarity in appearance. We can thus replace this verb with "look like."
But does English have analogous single-word verbs for "sound like," "smell like," "taste like," and "feel like?"
EDIT: Yes, the broad definition of resemble (as commenters have wisely pointed out) includes, more generally, "having qualities similar to" or "seeming like," which would include the other senses. Is it truly used for all of them? And my question remains: are there analogous single-word verbs for the other senses?
Solution 1:
Actually, you can say that such and such sound resembles something, for example:
"It resembles a train whistle, and with some imagination, the background ambient water sounds resemble a train moving down a track." news.discovery.com
The same is also true for smell like.
Solution 2:
Smells, sounds, tastes, and textures/"feels" can imitate others.
Outside of copyright or patent infringement cases you probably wouldn’t hear about a pair of sounds/smells/tastes/textures “imitating each other,” but one of them could certainly be described as imitating the other. Some examples:
Propane leaks are easy to detect due to the strong pungent smell that imitates the scent of rotten eggs.
An onomatopoeia ... is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. (note use of "resembles" next to "imitates")
There are a lot of brands out there that claim their products imitate the taste of burnt tobacco almost to perfection.
A kind of visual texture that imitates real texture by using a two- dimensional pattern to create the illusion of a three-dimensional surface. (visual texture = appearance?)
… meat alternatives are products made ... into a texturized product that has a texture that imitates the chewy texture of meat.
The surface imitates the feel of real ice and allows players another alternative when ice is unavailable.