impersonate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: impersonate	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for impersonate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
impersonate v assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"; "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man" Synonym(s): impersonate, portray represent another person with comic intentions pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" Synonym(s): pose, impersonate, personate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Impersonate \Imper"sonate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impersonated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Impersonating}.] 1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. 2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. 3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict impersonated his age. --Milman.