impersonate
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Etymology edit
From im- + person + -ate. Compare incorporate.
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impersonate (third-person singular simple present impersonates, present participle impersonating, simple past and past participle impersonated)
- (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of.
- (transitive, computing) To operate with the permissions of a different user account.
- (obsolete, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.
- Synonyms: embody, impersonize
- 1918, Paul Studer, Le mystère d'Adam, an Anglo-Norman drama of the twelfth century[1]:
- The shepherds were impersonated, then the Magi, finally Herod himself. In course of time all the elements of a fully developed Nativity play had thus been introduced.
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assume the identity of
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impersonate
- inflection of impersonare:
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impersonate f pl