0 past simple and past participle of imitate --
1 to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something: --
As the model proved successful, others imitated it, but the first followers largely failed.
An ideal can certainly be inaccessible in time, space or genius; being there not to be imitated but to elevate to light a hope.
This ideology infused his music as he imitated an alien machine with his monotone vocals.
This is the strategy that we have imitated with the robot.
First, he suggests that some movements are much more easily imitated than others, according to the species.
Nonverbally, they evidenced memory for events that they had imitated, as well as for events that they had only watched.
In the autism group half of the subjects imitated unreliably.
Strategies of co-residence initially developed by migrants were later imitated by locally born inhabitants.