meaning of personate
1. To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
2. To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
3. To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
4. To personify; to typify; to describe.
5. To play or assume a character.
6. Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
7. attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods
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Related Words
personate | personated |
