impersonate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb assume or act the character of
    portray.
    • She impersonates Madonna
    • The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man
  2. verb represent another person with comic intentions
  3. verb pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
    personate; pose.
    • She posed as the Czar's daughter

WordNet

Im*per"son*ate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Impersonated ; present participle & verbal noun Impersonating
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913