transitive verb personated, personating
- to act or play the part of, as in a drama or masquerade; portray
- to personify
- Law to assume the character or identity of with intent to defraud; impersonate
Origin:
< L personatus, masked < persona: see person
adjective
Bot. having two lips and a projection in its throat: said of a tubular corolla, as in the snapdragon