Impersonate meaning

ĭm-pûr'sə-nāt'
To assume the character or appearance of, especially fraudulently.

Impersonate a police officer.

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To imitate the appearance, voice, or manner of; mimic.

An entertainer who impersonates celebrities.

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To represent in the form of a person; personify; embody.
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To act the part of.
  • To mimic the appearance, manner, etc. of (a person) for purposes of entertainment.
  • To pretend to be for purposes of fraud.
    To impersonate an officer.
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To manifest in corporeal form, or in one's own person or body.
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To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of.

The conman managed to impersonate several executives.

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Origin of impersonate

From im- + Latin persona ‘person’ + -ate, modelled on incorporate.

Sentence Examples

  • And as he waved his arms to impersonate the policeman, his portly form again shook with a deep ringing laugh, the laugh of one who always eats well and, in particular, drinks well.

  • In November the Commune fitted up Notre Dame as a temple of Reason, selected an opera girl to impersonate the goddess, and with profane ceremony installed her in the choir.

  • After watching his estranged family from afar, Phillip hired Cane Ashby to impersonate him.

  • A young Oxford priest, Richard Symonds by name, conceived the project of putting forward the boy Simnel to impersonate one of these princes as a claimant for the crown, with the idea of thereby procuring for himself the archbishopric of Canterbury.

  • If the password is not protecting personal or financial information or does not let a stranger impersonate you by sending e-mail as you, the password can probably be fairly simple.

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