impersonate

impersonate
    v 1: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna";
         "The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man" [syn:
         {impersonate}, {portray}]
    2: represent another person with comic intentions
    3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent
       intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: {pose},
       {impersonate}, {personate}]
    

Impersonate \Im*per"son*ate\, 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.
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   2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
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   3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to
      personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
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            Benedict impersonated his age.        --Milman.
      Impersonation
    

57 Moby Thesaurus words for "impersonate":
      act, act a part, act as, act out, adumbrate, ape, body forth, copy,
      copycat, create a role, demonstrate, depict, discourse, do, embody,
      enact, exemplify, figure, foreshadow, hit off, hit off on,
      illustrate, image, incarnate, make false pretenses, masquerade as,
      mime, mimic, mirror, mock, pantomime, parrot, pass for, perform,
      personate, personify, play, play a part, play a role,
      play opposite, playact, portray, pose as, prefigure, pretend to be,
      pretypify, project, realize, reflect, represent, shadow,
      shadow forth, support, sustain a part, take a part, take off,
      take off on