personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personated
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past participleof personate.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof personate.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
personateverb (used with object)to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
Example Sentences
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The real Garlinghouse reported this to Instagram, which took a look ... and then 72 hours later, informed him that after investigating the company had determined that he was not actually being personated.
From The Verge ● Apr. 22, 2020
Dr. Trefusis personated a violinist, sawing upon the air.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
With him it was easy to deal, poor wretch! but the clever rogues who had employed him and personated the members of the honourable firm of Bluestone & Fagg were never traced.
From Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Mary Louisa Molesworth
He espoused the cause of an impostor who personated the deposed khalifa, Hisham, and pretended to govern the city in his name.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
In certain tragedies, these singers personated the Eumenides or Furies.
From The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies by Catherine Ann White
