personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
had personated
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past perfectof personate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The boys who, prior to the Civil War, had personated the heroines of the drama, were now too mature, both in years and aspect, for such an occupation.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
Here was she married to the surviving brother of the girl she had personated.
From Gabriel Conroy by Bert Harte
One man had personated a vote, but this appeared to have been done at the instigation of some very cunning Browborough partisan.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
The story of how Jim Hooker had personated him stopped short upon Clarence's lips.
From A Waif of the Plains by Bret Harte
She told a tiresome story about her having been robbed of her papers and her name by an impostor who had personated her.
From The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins
