personate🔊

To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.

To portray a character (as in a play); to act.

To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.

To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

(botany, now uncommon) Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (in a way reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.

(obsolete) To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.