impersonated
past simple and past participle ofimpersonate
impersonate
verb[T]
uk/ɪmˈpɜː.sən.eɪt/us/ɪmˈpɝː.sən.eɪt/tointentionallycopyanother person'scharacteristics, such astheirbehaviour,speech,appearance, orexpressions,especiallyto makepeoplelaugh:
She's the woman who impersonates all thecelebritieson TV.
toattempttodeceivesomeone bypretendingthat you are anotherperson:
He wasfinedfor impersonating apoliceofficer.
Copying and copies
- anti-counterfeiting
- anti-piracy
- ape
- biomimicry
- blueprint
- bootleg
- derivative
- facsimile
- imaging
- imitate
- imitation
- imitative
- imitator
- mail merge
- pirate
- pirated
- plagiarism
- plagiarize
- recopy
- reproduce
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Fraud & corruption
Cheating & tricking
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Within this framework, the designed dialogue model appears as a kind of 'forum' for various facets,impersonatedby different models extracted from both intentional and structural approaches of conversation.
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Voters can more easily beimpersonatedand ballot papers can be intercepted or even bought and sold more easily under the new system.
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As has been said, they are causing grievous distress to the people whom they haveimpersonatedor to their families.
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A prosecution would arise in a case where, for example, a claimant hadimpersonatedsomeone.
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If they decide they want to impose a low fine in such cases where someone hasimpersonatedan inspector, that is a matter for them.
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Someone hasimpersonatedme and made off with some of my finest gear.
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We have heard many stories about people who haveimpersonatedothers and voted five or six times, so there has always been fraud.
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Personation can in general be detected only if the person beingimpersonatedturns up to vote.
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We have heard the myth of the 20,000impersonatedvotes.
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In relation to the dangers of imposters, it occurred to me to wonder whether an offence would be committed if an authorised officer wereimpersonated.
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What we really want is a jury to consider the case and decide that if the defendantimpersonatedanother person, obviously there would be no consent.
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In fact, she had beenimpersonatedby a drug addict who had used her name while the patient had been out of the country for three years.
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Security means ensuring that people can vote in secret and cannot beimpersonatedby others.
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Originally he also chose the winner of each section; now it is done by a topical guest announcer (impersonated).
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