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/ɪmpˈərsənˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Impersonate v. t. (past & past part. impersonated; pres. part. impersonating)

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. "Benedict impersonated his age."

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Etymology of 'Impersonate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Impersonate" Quotes from Famous Books

... George died, Captain Carter wanted me to impersonate him. We planned it with Dr. Frank, to try and learn what Miko and the others were doing. Because I never knew that poor George had fallen ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 • Various

... diffidence in ordinary intercourse, it effectually disappeared so soon as he began to declaim or to recite. The histrionic in him declared itself, rising dominant. Given a character to impersonate, big swelling words to say, fine sentiments to enunciate, he changed to the required colour chameleon-like. You forgot—at least the feminine portion of his audience, almost without exception, forgot—that his round light-brown eyes stared uncomfortably much; ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... Height of Heaven, 50 Great general Agent in all finite souls, Doth in that action put on finiteness, For all his Thoughts are acts, and every act A Being of Substance; God impersonal, Yet in all worlds impersonate in all, 55 Absolute Infinite, whose dazzling robe Flows in rich folds, and darts in shooting Hues Of infinite Finiteness! he rolls each orb Matures each planet, and Tree, and spread thro' all Wields all the Universe of Life and Thought, 60 [Yet leaves to all the Creatures meanest, ...

— The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Vol I and II • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... the form of a white hind, had disappeared into the forest, her good friend Giroflee began to chase after her. As soon as she had gone, Long-Epine took the clothes of her mistress and dressed herself up in them, and resolved to impersonate the Princess before the young Prince. Then the carriage drove on, and in it sat Long-Epine disguised ...

— Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book - Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations • Edmund Dulac

... particularly admire," teased Harry, knowing very well Dorothy could not, at that minute, name a single character she would care to impersonate. ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore • Laura Lee Hope

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