hardly recognize
Frequency: 8.235.5 per million words
to be almost unable to identify someone or something previously known
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Examples (20)
- She changed so much over the summer, I could hardly recognize her.
- Stella hardly recognized her brother.
- He's lost so much weight that his friends hardly recognize him anymore.
- After twenty years, I hardly recognized my old friend.
- The town has been rebuilt to the point that visitors hardly recognize the main square.
- The city had changed so much that he could hardly recognize it.
- With all the makeup and the costume, his own children would hardly recognize him.
- Her voice was so altered by illness that I hardly recognized it.
- Her voice was so altered by the illness that I could hardly recognize it.
- In the dim light, she could hardly recognize the familiar face.
- After years of neglect, the painting was so faded you could hardly recognize the subject.
- He was in such a disguise that his own mother would hardly recognize him.
- The original manuscript was so damaged, scholars could hardly recognize the handwriting.
- The car was so badly damaged that they could hardly recognize the make.
- I ran into an old classmate and I'll admit, I could hardly recognize him at first.
- I had only met her once, so I hardly recognized her at the party.
- The company's mission has shifted so drastically, employees hardly recognize the values it once stood for.
- He'd lost so much weight that I hardly recognized him at first.
- He was so exhausted, his face was a pale mask that I could hardly recognize.
- With her new haircut and glasses, I hardly recognized my colleague.