The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Impersonated; p. pr. & vb. n. Impersonating.]
To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
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To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
Benedict impersonated his age.
--Milman.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of impersonate English)
Usage examples of "impersonating".
It certainly would not be wise for him to do anything out of character for the security minister he was impersonating, after all.
The empath would pick up on that and it would hopefully be enough to deflect anything she might read from Daeniq and others impersonating various Dokaalan.
The only thing that prevented him from allowing a smile to crease the features of the man he was impersonating was that, apparently, stress made humans smell worse than they did already.
It is logical to assume that the Satarran impersonating First Minister Hjatyn triggered the explosion himself, rather than communicating instructions to subordinates to carry out the action.
Turning to look in that direction, Lorakin saw Daeniq, still impersonating the Dokaalan security minister, Nidan, enter the room.
Was it simply because he wanted Hjatyn, or rather the Satarran currently impersonating him, captured and made to answer for what he had done to the Dokaalan people?
You've been impersonating civilians so long you don't know the difference.
Although he'd come to Washington thinking of himself as Peter Lang impersonating Charles Duffy and Mike Hamilton, he'd been distracted into talking to Holly as the core identity he'd been trying to avoid.
He needed to study the image carefully before he was convinced that it was definitely Maria Tomez and not Juana impersonating her.
Posh folk, some of them, folk who looked as if they surely must have daughters who were good at impersonating ponies.
We would make love in the banana plantations and she would run around afterwards with her clothes off, impersonating ponies.
When someone politically important overseas dies, or is assassinated, they call them up on this FLATLINE hot line, impersonating their Prime Minister, or King, or suchlike, and get secret information out of them, which is why Britannia still rules the waves.
To this end a gentleman named Charlie Farnsbarns, a music-hall entertainer, who specialized in impersonating Hitler, was called in.
And when it came to impersonating ponies, she was definitely in a class of her own.
It had seemed a ridiculous idea when he'd first come up with it, an inspired improvisation to save his hide when the Japanese mob had sent an assassin to punish him for impersonating one of its members.