personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personates
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present tense formof personate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“Everett Quinton personates the oinker as a most sympathetic fellow,” Don Nelsen wrote in a review in The Daily News.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
This simple tableau is represented by two females: one personates Day, and is costumed in a long white robe.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head
That shadowy body, now reduced to four members, personates the ghost of the European concert.
From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various
This is one of the groans of old Burton over his laborious work, when he is anticipating the reception it is like to meet with, and personates his objectors.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
Colonel Freeman personates a French fop, and obtains his consent to marry his ward, the heiress.—Mrs.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
