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To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

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  1. v. t. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
  2. v. t. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify.
  3. v. t. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth.
  4. v. assume or act the character of
  5. v. represent another person with comic intentions
  6. v. pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
  7. 1. To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being. 2. To ascribe the qualities of a person to; to personify. 3. To assume, or to represent, the person or character of; to personate; as, he impersonated Macbeth. Benedict impersonated his age. Milman.
  8. The act of impersonating; personification; investment withpersonality; representation in a personal form.
  9. v:100 v. assume or act the character of v. represent another person with comic intentions