0 present participle of impersonate
1 to intentionally copy another person's characteristics, such as their behaviour, speech, appearance, or expressions, especially to make people laugh:
She's the woman who impersonates all the celebrities on TV.
The same procedure, of course, accounts for the generation of genderlects in acting, impersonating, and other kinds of role-playing.
I propose that the adoption of unmarked elements in the appellative phrases of women rulers might also be a form of impersonating masculine rulership.
But he does this by impersonating his opposite, as though his arrival were to continue rather than finish the game.
All that kind of information can be obtained from a local authority office by impersonating a police officer, and this does happen.
The show consisted, of course, of men impersonating women.
We know that there is always a possibility of someone impersonating another.
Apparently it is proposed to introduce a new criminal offence of impersonating a barrister.
There may be a danger in future from people impersonating them.
