personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personation
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a word derived from
personate.
Example Sentences
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No cases of personation - where someone pretends to be another person, in order to vote - were reported during this year's elections.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2023
The former Marine, Brandon Magnan, 37, of Naples, Florida, was charged on Jan. 6 with false personation of an officer or employee of the United States, according to a criminal complaint by the Secret Service.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 11, 2020
In cases of suspected personation the poll clerk reports the matter to the returning officer, who tells the police.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2019
But if you vote as anyone else - living, dead or fictitious - you would be committing an offence called personation, the Electoral Commission said.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2019
Sir Pitt Crawley, coarse, uneducated, sordid, quarrelsome, his small, sharp mind an epitome of vulgar shrewdness, is a personation to force laughter from the lungs of a misanthrope.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 by Various
