to imitate
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2.7
- verb
- /ˈɪməˌteɪt/
:
imitar
- The children love to imitate their favorite cartoon characters during playtime.
- imitate children
- attempt to imitate
- imitate behavior
And then he says you must either imitate them or hate them.
- And then he says you must either imitate them or hate them.
- So can we choose not to imitate other people when we're young?
- So he says the poets should imitate good portrait painters.
- You don't want to imitate these kinds of of harmful effects.
- It seems like we created a culture that is just imitating what they see, right?
- So he saw it as a threat because he didn't want the Russians to imitate the Ukrainians.
- In other words, you better not start imitating humans, because that's just forbidden.
Examples
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I find it hard to imitate the behavior of other people.
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Human infants are born with "mirror neurons"; that's why babies imitate the faces and sounds of those around them.
Academic text (2011) -
And then he says you must either imitate them or hate them.
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So can we choose not to imitate other people when we're young?
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And the young pick that up and they imitate the parents and they learn.
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You imitate someone who does pretty well though.
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At first, junior students listen to the tapes and imitate what they have heard.
Academic text (1992) -
For example, young children often acquire books and imitate adults by turning pages and reading aloud.
Academic text (2008) -
Ask the class to perform the passage and imitate the modeled passage.
Academic text (2011) -
As she watched the ballet dancers, she tried to imitate their graceful movements.
Synonyms
177
1.0
Do something the same way someone else does
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
66
4.9
To make an exact copy of something, often in a lab
41
4.0
To make a copy of something that looks like the original
22
5.5
Copy someone's voice or actions to seem like them
2
5.0
To copy someone's actions to make a joke
Antonyms
How Accurate
Surface Forms
Morphology
imitate = imit + ate
Although the verb ends in the productive suffix '-ate', the stem 'imit' is not a recognisable English base, so learners cannot reliably infer the meaning from the parts.
Etymology
Imitate comes from the Latin imitari, which means 'to copy'. Think of it as making an imitation of someone — copying their voice, look, or behavior, so to imitate is to copy someone or something.