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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

... not be such a bad thing for you," remarked Tim Crapsey. "Maybe you can impersonate him and touch the hotel clerk for a loan of ten or ...

— Dave Porter and His Double - The Disapperarance of the Basswood Fortune • Edward Stratemeyer

... Teacher and pupils should endeavor to secure variety of interest in roles. At first, assignments are likely to be determined by apparent fitness. The quiet boy is not required to play the part of the braggart. The retiring girl is not expected to impersonate the shrew. In one or two appearances it may be a good thing to ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... No doubt there is a staggering absurdity in appointing an ordinary clerk to see that the leaders of European literature do not corrupt the morals of the nation, and to restrain Sir Henry Irving, as a rogue and a vagabond, from presuming to impersonate Samson or David on the stage, though any other sort of artist may daub these scriptural figures on a signboard or carve them on a tombstone without hindrance. If the General Medical Council, the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Incorporated ...

— Mrs. Warren's Profession • George Bernard Shaw

... listen to nonsense And not be beaten by an acknowledged defeat Botched mendings will only make them worse Convincing themselves that they impersonate sagacity I have all the luxuries—enough to loathe them Lawyers hold the keys of the great world Naked original ideas, are acceptable at no time Not daring risk of office by offending the taxpayer This female talk of the eternities ...

— Quotations from the Works of George Meredith • David Widger

... female, reached an almost impossible height, for parents had only to lift a finger and say, "You shan't go to the flag-raising!" and the refractory spirit at once armed itself for new struggles toward the perfect life. Mr. Jeremiah Cobb had consented to impersonate Uncle Sam, and was to drive Columbia and the States to the "raising" on the top of his own stage. Meantime the boys were drilling, the ladies were cutting and basting and stitching, and the girls were sewing on stars; for the starry part of the spangled banner was to remain with each ...

— The Flag-raising • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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