impersonate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they impersonate | |
| he / she / it impersonates | |
| past simple impersonated | |
| past participle impersonated | |
| -ing form impersonating |
- impersonate somebody
to pretend to be somebody in order to trick people or to entertain them 冒充；假扮；扮演 He was caught trying to impersonate a security guard. 他企图假扮警卫被抓获。 They do a pretty good job of impersonating Laurel and Hardy. 他们扮演劳莱和哈代很成功。
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘personify’): from in- ‘into’ + Latin persona ‘person’, on the pattern of incorporate.