Personate

(v. t.) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

(v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.

(v. t.) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

(v. t.) To personify; to typify; to describe.

(v. i.) To play or assume a character.

(a.) Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

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• You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It had been agreed that, in their escape, she was to personate the character of a Creole lady, and Emmeline that of her servant. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• With a slight shrug of her lovely shoulders she made a gesture with her hands personating the casting of something over the craft's side. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Whether the man personating a mechanic was, or was not, an accomplice in the crime, it is impossible to say. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He personated his assumption of innocence even to self-deception. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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