impersonate
verb🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪt/
🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they impersonate | 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪt/ 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪt/ |
| he / she / it impersonates | 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪts/ 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪts/ |
| past simple impersonated | 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle impersonated | 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪtɪd/ 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form impersonating | 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪmˈpɜːrsəneɪtɪŋ/ |
- impersonate somebody
to pretend to be somebody in order to trick people or to entertain them 冒充；假扮；扮演 He was caught trying to impersonate a security guard. 他企图假扮警卫被抓获。 🔊🔊 They do a pretty good job of impersonating Laurel and Hardy. 他们扮演劳莱和哈代很成功。 🔊🔊
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘personify’): from in- ‘into’ + Latin persona ‘person’, on the pattern of incorporate.