personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
have personated
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present perfectof personate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Here," thought Scrymgeour that night over a pipe of the Mixture, "the affair ends; though I dare say the young lady will call me terrible names when she hears that I have personated her lover.
From My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke by Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Yet the same critic is obliged to confess that, at seventy years of age, a younger man might have personated but could not have acted, Hamlet better.
From The Drama by Henry Brodribb Irving
He roused himself with a sudden effort, and started to see, seated next him, a figure hideous enough to have personated one of the malignant beings of whom Zanoni had spoken.
From Zanoni by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
He ought to have personated Othello, but was obliged to excuse himself from raving for "the handkerchief! the handkerchief!" on the rather anomalous plea of a bad cold.
From The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
In his official holiday costume he could well have personated the most important French prelate.
From Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by John Oxenford
