to personate
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9.9
- verb
- /ˈpɜrsəˌneɪt/
:
suplantar
Examples
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Or in-personating?
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In the theater, she had to personate a famous historical figure for her role.
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The actor was able to personate the character so convincingly that the audience was completely fooled.
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In his latest film, he personated a detective investigating a series of mysterious crimes.
Synonyms
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6.1
To pretend to be someone you are not to trick people
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7.2
Pretend to be another person by copying their looks, voice or actions
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8.0
To claim to be or do something, often without proof
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5.3
To show yourself as a certain kind of person to make others think that way
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6.9
To pretend to be someone else to hide the truth
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3.4
Pretend to have qualities or feelings you do not have
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3.8
To pretend to be someone else to practice acting and speaking in a situation
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3.9
To put on clothes or a mask to hide who you are
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6.1
To act out a scene to practice or show how something happens
To pretend to be someone else to trick people
How Deceptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Personate comes from the Latin word persona, which meant 'mask' and is the same root as the English word person, so imagine an actor putting on a mask to become someone else. That's why to personate is to pretend to be another person, either to play a role or to deceive.