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impersonate - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'impersonate' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Impersonate [ v. t.]
- To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
- To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
- To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.

Meaning of 'impersonate' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . impersonate [ v]
Meaning (1):
- assume or act the character of
Example in sentence:
  • She impersonates Madonna;
  • The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
Meaning (2):
- pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
Example in sentence:
  • She posed as the Czar's daughter

Nearby Words:

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