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feel like

verb

  1. to be up to, care about
  2. to look like, seem like
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. To have a desire for something, or to do something.

    I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick.

  2. To perceive oneself to resemble (something); to have the sense of being (something).

    “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.

  3. To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.

    I feel like it will rain all week.

    She felt like the dog could start biting at any moment.

  4. To feel as though.

    Those guinea feathers blew out in the sun ahead of us and lighted up, then got sucked back into the shade. That old wreck wasn’t going to fly, it wasn’t even going to roll on those flat tires. But I felt like I was flying through a cloud of guinea feathers.

    I’m real scared . . . stiff all over . . . I feel like I am dying . . . I can’t move . . . I don’t want to die . . . help me.

  5. To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.

    It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.

    It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.

  6. Denotes the apparent temperature.