VERB | communication | personate, pose, impersonate | pretend to be someone you are not |
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cognition | personate, personify | attribute human qualities to something |
Meaning | pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
Synonyms | pose, impersonate | |
Narrower | masquerade | pretend to be someone or something that you are not |
Broader | deceive, betray, lead astray | Cause someone to believe an untruth |
Spanish | hacerse pasar por | |
Nouns | personation | imitating the mannerisms of another person |
personation | acting the part of a character on stage |
Meaning | Attribute human qualities to something. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something | |
Example | "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" | |
Synonym | personify | |
Broader | impute, ascribe, assign, attribute | Attribute or credit to |
Spanish | personificar | |
Catalan | personificar |
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