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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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
At one time indeed she was rumoured to have personated the Goddess of Health, when the 'celestial' Doctor Graham was giving his strange and indecorous lectures in Pall Mall; but that scandal has been contradicted.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
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
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
"The woman, whoever she was, must have personated me for a reason of her own," she answered.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
