Impersonate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Impersonated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impersonating}.]
     1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a
        living being.
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     2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
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     3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to
        personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
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              Benedict impersonated his age.        --Milman.
        Impersonation

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  impersonate
       v 1: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna";
            "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man" [syn: {portray}]
       2: represent another person with comic intentions
       3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
          intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: {pose},
           {personate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "impersonate":
     act, act a part, act as, act out, adumbrate, ape, body forth, copy,
     copycat, create a role, demonstrate, depict, discourse, do, embody,
     enact, exemplify, figure, foreshadow, hit off, hit off on,
     illustrate, image, incarnate, make false pretenses, masquerade as,
     mime, mimic, mirror, mock, pantomime, parrot, pass for, perform,
     personate, personify, play, play a part, play a role,
     play opposite, playact, portray, pose as, prefigure, pretend to be,
     pretypify, project, realize, reflect, represent, shadow,
     shadow forth, support, sustain a part, take a part, take off,
     take off on