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    Im·per·son·ate
    /imˈpərsnˌāt/

    verb

    • 1. pretend to be (another person) as entertainment or in order to deceive someone: "it's a very serious offense to impersonate a police officer"
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  3. Learn the meaning of impersonate, a verb that means to assume or act the character of someone else. See synonyms, examples, word history, and legal and kids definitions of impersonate.

  4. Impersonate means to intentionally copy another person's characteristics, such as their behaviour, speech, appearance, or expressions, especially to make people laugh. Learn more about the verb impersonate, its synonyms, antonyms, and usage examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.

  5. to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer. to mimic the voice, mannerisms, etc., of (a person) in order to entertain. to act or play the part of; personate. Archaic. to represent in personal or bodily form; personify; typify.

  6. Impersonate means to copy or pretend to be another person, often for humor or deception. Learn how to use this verb in different contexts, see related words and phrases, and listen to the pronunciation.

  7. Impersonate means to pretend to be someone you're not. If you impersonate a bank teller in order to gain access to the money in the vault, you better hope nobody at the bank asks you any questions. Impersonate comes from the Latin in and persona , meaning "to invest with a personality."

  8. impersonate. to pretend to be someone in order to trick people or to entertain them He was caught trying to impersonate a security guard. They do a pretty good job of impersonating Laurel and Hardy. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.

  9. Impersonation is the act of copying or pretending to be another person, often for humour or deception. Learn more about the meaning, usage and synonyms of impersonation with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.

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