| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To mimic, imitate, emulate, simulate or ape.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To personify or embody. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To falsify or plagiarize. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To replicate or reproduce.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Present participle conjugation of the verb impersonate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (impersonate) | 1. Assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna".[Wordnet]. 2. Represent another person with comic intentions.[Wordnet]. 3. Pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions.[Wordnet]. 4. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.[Websters]. 5. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.[Websters]. 6. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.[Websters]. 7. Base verb from the following inflections: impersonating, impersonated, impersonates, impersonator, impersonators, impersonatingly and impersonatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "IMPERSONATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
Specialty Definition: impersonate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To personify.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (transitive) To manifest in corporeal form, or in one's own person or body. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person), to assume the identity of. The conman managed to impersonate several executives. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
