impersonate
verb (used with object)
to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be.
impersonates
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present tense formof impersonate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The Russian matryoshka doll, a painted wooden vessel in which five to seven generations nest one inside the other, impersonates eternity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
Worries about AI stretch back nearly a hundred years to the film Metropolis, in which a robot impersonates a real woman.
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
Taylor fondly impersonates the roving sweet potato vendor who shouted into his loudspeaker: “All you little children playing in the sand, go tell your mama, ‘Here’s the Sweet Potato Man!’”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
An X account called “Mossad Commentary,” which impersonates Israel’s intelligence agency, made such a claim in a post on Monday at 3:49 a.m.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
The person who desires to receive initiation into the Midē´wigân, under such circumstances, impersonates Minabō´zho, as he is believed to have penetrated the country of the abode of shadows, or ne´-ba-gī´-zis—“land of the sleeping sun.”
From The Mide'wiwin or "Grand Medicine Society" of the Ojibwa Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 143-300 by Walter James Hoffman
