Impersonate means to pretend to be someone you're not. If you impersonate a bank teller in order to gain access to the money in the vault, you better hope nobody at the bank asks you any questions.
To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
Verb
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar''s daughter"
Verb
represent another person with comic intentions
Verb
assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
v. t.
To invest with personality; to endow with the form
of a living being.
v. t.
To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to
personify.
v. t.
To assume, or to represent, the person or character
of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
Impersonate
Benedict impersonated his age.
To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
Usage Examples
It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.
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Other Usage ExamplesI learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.