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Impersonate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To assume the character or appearance of, especially fraudulently: impersonate a police officer.

v. To imitate the appearance, voice, or manner of; mimic: an entertainer who impersonates celebrities.

v. Archaic To embody; personify.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To manifest in corporeal form, or in one's own person or body.

v. To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

v. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.

v. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To invest with personality; ascribe the qualities of a person to; represent in bodily form; personify; embody.

To assume the person or character of; personate, especially on the stage: as, to impersonate Hamlet.

Personified; invested with personality.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. represent another person with comic intentions

v. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions

v. assume or act the character of

Word Usage

"Kachina, for example, also denotes one of the elaborately masked dancers who impersonate a kachina at agricultural ceremonies, and yeibichai and shalako similarly have the same kind of dual usage."

Verb Form

impersonated impersonates impersonating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

mock play act represent

Form

impersonation impersonator

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

personify personate embody typify act