1.  personate(v = verb.communication) impersonate, pose - pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
is one way to betray, deceive, lead astray
Derived forms noun personation₂, noun personation₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s somebody

2.  personate(v = verb.cognition) personify - attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
is one way to ascribe, assign, attribute, impute
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [1913 Webster]
"In fable, hymn, or song so personating
Their gods ridiculous." [1913 Webster]

1.  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. Hammond. [1913 Webster]

2.  To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. Milton. [1913 Webster]

3.  To personify; to typify; to describe. Shak. [1913 Webster]

   To play or assume a character. [1913 Webster]

   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. [1913 Webster]

personate, v.tr.
1 play the part of (a character in a drama etc.; another type of person).
2 pretend to be (another person), esp. for fraudulent purposes; impersonate.

Derivative:
personation n. personator n.

Etymology:
LL personare personat- (as PERSON)

VB  act, play, perform, put on the stage, personate, mimic, enact, play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part, rehearse, spout, gag, rant, strut and fret one's hour upon a stage, tread the boards, tread the stage, come out, star it.

VB  imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat, do like, echo, reecho, catch, transcribe, match, parallel, mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate, act, represent, counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature, lampoon, burlesque, follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of, take pattern by, follow suit, follow the example of, walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit, take after, model after, emulate.

VB  copy, drawing, sketch, drought, draft, plot, chart, figure, scheme, image, likeness, icon, portrait, striking likeness, speaking likeness, very image, effigy, facsimile, figure, figure head, puppet, doll, figurine, aglet, manikin, lay- figure, model, mammet, marionette, fantoccini, waxwork, bust, statue, statuette, ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph, kanji, diagram, monogram, map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan), ichnography, cartography, atlas, outline, scheme, view, radiograph, scotograph, sciagraph, spectrogram, heliogram, V, represent, delineate, depict, depicture, portray, take a likeness, catch a likeness, hit off, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot, figure, shadow forth, shadow out, adumbrate, body forth, describe, trace, copy, mold, dress up, illustrate, symbolize, paint, carve, engrave, personate, personify, impersonate, assume a character, pose as, act, play, mimic, hold the mirror up to nature.