personate

Verb

• pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
• attribute human qualities to something
  • "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
• 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.
• To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.

Adj

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

Synonyms

impersonate, personify, pose, masked

Related Words

personation, personative, personator