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Mimicking

Mimic \Mim"ic\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mimicked; p. pr. & vb. n. Mimicking.]

  1. To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.

    The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimic, and the mien belie.
    --Dryden.

  2. (Biol.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

    Syn: To ape; imitate; counterfeit; mock.

Wiktionary
mimicking

n. mimicry vb. (present participle of mimic English)

WordNet
mimic
  1. v. imitate (a person, a manner, etc.), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately" [syn: mime]

  2. [also: mimicking, mimicked]

mimic
  1. adj. constituting an imitation; "the mimic warfare of the opera stage"- Archibald Alison

  2. [also: mimicking, mimicked]

mimic
  1. n. someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress) [syn: mimicker]

  2. [also: mimicking, mimicked]

mimicking

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Usage examples of "mimicking".

Raif began his move forward, pouring over the ridge-top, mimicking the movement of sliding snow.

They massed on the horizon, mimicking mountains, or boiled upward in vast towers, or settled into elongated tracts, like plow-lines.

The smaller gate was inset into the larger one, mimicking its dragon design precisely.

That last was a mimicking of the phrase the old hag liked to use with them afore their beatings with a birch switch.

He turned, stared, knowing what it was but still half-expecting to see a person standing there, mimicking him.

He had laughed it off on his return, mimicking the pompous old hypocrite, but she had felt the rage beneath the mockery and, on the whole, would have preferred that he did not meet Mueran so soon afterwards.

Dark, half-formed fears were wrestling with his concern for Cassraw and, all too aware that he was mimicking Mueran, he looked around the group in an attempt to assess the consensus.

He abandoned her breast to kiss her with a near-violent eroticism, his tongue mimicking the driving motion of his hips as he plunged in and out of her silken depths.

The wolf was the hunter, but this time he was also the sacrifice, as some of the younger braves danced after him, thrusting spears at him, mimicking the hunt.

But they were words not of this earth: eerie syllables rising deep from within some banshee mimicking the language of pitiful humans.

Chimene rarely complained, almost never argued about anything, and did her schoolwork and chores diligently enough, yet Risa could not escape the feeling that her older daughter was only playing a part, mimicking feelings she did not have.

The slight young man had a talent for mimicking the Peeper, a skill that would now be put to use.

Suleiman, unlike Dyami, was capable of mimicking emotions he no longer felt when necessary.

As the Wildfolk put on elaborate pantomimes and clever mimickings, Nevyn finally understood all that they had to tell him.