to mime
2
5.0
- verb
- /maɪm/
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- The mask and its dance group performed a warrior's dance at which warlike behavior was mimed and accompanied by praise songs about the couple (1974:175).
Examples
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Herbert comes into the lounge, miming the song with a limp fish.
Fiction book (1994) -
He can mime your movements and store them in memory, Max.
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I will mime it better for you.
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Listen up, we got ways to make you talk, or mime.
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Somebody's a chicken, you know, I remember the playground kids, you know, actually like mime a chicken to each other.
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T-1000 opens the locker and blocks it from her view with its body as it mimes putting the gun in.
Fiction book (1991) -
Riggs mimes various things to Benny.
Fiction book (1998) -
Val mimes "paper;" Earl mimes "rock."
Fiction book (1990) -
The girl imitates the Nkanda dancers, miming the content of her songs; the women in the audience answer as a choir.
Academic text (1998) -
During the rehearsal, she decided to mime the actions of a dinosaur to make the kids laugh.
Synonyms
209
3.4
Make fun of someone by copying them to show dislike
186
2.7
Copy the way someone speaks, looks, or acts
77
3.1
To copy someone's actions or voice to make people laugh
70
7.2
Pretend to be another person by copying their looks, voice or actions
22
5.5
Copy someone's voice or actions to seem like them
16
4.2
To copy someone in a funny way
15
5.3
To copy the style of someone or something to make it funny by exaggerating features
8
5.8
To copy someone's words or actions to make fun of them
7
6.6
To draw or act like someone while making their features bigger to be funny
5
6.3
Imitate something in a funny way to make people laugh
To imitate someone in a funny, exaggerated way to make fun of them
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mime as a verb comes from an old Greek verb mimeisthai meaning 'to imitate', and it shares the root with mimic. So to mime someone is to copy their actions or manner for fun or satire, often without speaking.