Definitions for impersonate

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impersonate im·per·son·ate

Spelling: [verb im-pur-suh-neyt; adjective im- Impersonate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 2156 anagrams from letters in impersonate (aeeimnoprst).

Definitions for impersonate

verb (used with object)

1. to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be:
2. to mimic the voice, mannerisms, etc., of (a person) in order to entertain.
3. to act or play the part of; personate.
4. Archaic. to represent in personal or bodily form; personify; typify.

adjective

1. embodied in a person; invested with personality.

Origin of impersonate

First recorded in 1615-25; im-¹ + person + -ate

Examples for impersonate

They intrude here, to impersonate the Nine Worthies before the two Courts.

The students had chosen a hideous old grumbler to impersonate him.

He used the choruses as Handel did, to impersonate the mass of people.

Now when I am sixty-three I shall begin to impersonate children.

What would he have given to impersonate her lover in the piece!

The truth is that anyone in the world could impersonate me, and there is little I can do about it.

Say one thing for former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich, he certainly has the right hair to impersonate Elvis.

A lonely young woman gets drawn into an online forum and is asked to impersonate someone else.

Con artists routinely hack into accounts to impersonate people and bilk money from strangers.

She proceeded to impersonate both that heroine and Madame La Farge.