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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate..
But this latter has, at the suggestion of Tyndarus, exchanged clothes with him, and the slave[…] personates the master.
Dr. Olivant had, in fact, been faced with the alternative of personating a specialist who could be referred to at any time or of inventing a fictitious one who might be less convincing but who would be more elusive.
The antients would certainly have invoked the goddess Flora for this purpose, and it would have been no difficulty for their priests, or politicians to have persuaded the people of the real presence of the deity, though a plain mortal had personated her and performed her office.
One do I personate of Timon's frame , Whom Fortune with her iv'ry hand wafts to her
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a personated mate
This arrangement is well typified in plants with a personate corolla, such as the toad-flax and snap-dragon, ...
[…] the commencement of the tube of a personate or labiate flower.
Use personate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Personate means (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate..
Common synonyms include masked, pose, personify, impersonate.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But this latter has, at the suggestion of Tyndarus, exchanged clothes with him, and the slave[…] personates the master.
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