Crossword-Solution: PERSONATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Personate | v. t. | To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. |
| Personate | v. t. | 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. |
| Personate | v. t. | To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask. |
| Personate | v. t. | To personify; to typify; to describe. |
| Personate | v. i. | To play or assume a character. |
| Personate | a. | 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. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PERSONATE | anagram | ESPERANTO, TEARSOPEN |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PERSONATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Play a part on stage | 1 answer |
| assume the identity of (another person) with intent to deceive | 1 answer |
| pass for | 4 answers |
| PLAY a part | 14 answers |
| Enact | 36 answers |
| MOVE in short leaps | 39 answers |
| Imitate | 56 answers |
| Portray | 65 answers |
| ACT ___ | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMEAZC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PERSONATE (5)
Suppose, I answered, that a just and good man in the course of a narration comes on some saying or action of another good man,--I should imagine that he will like to personate him, and will not be ashamed of this sort of imitation: he will be most ready to play the part of the good man when he is acting firmly and wisely; in a less degree when he is overtaken by illness or love or drink, or has met with any other disaster.
Barbara, young Lady, you have an excellent invention! You must personate the Bleeding Nun, truly? What impiety! What incredulity! Marry, I have a good mind to let you pursue your plan: When the real Ghost met you, I warrant, you would be in a pretty condition! Don Alphonso, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for seducing a young ignorant Creature to leave her family and Friends: However, for this time at least I shall mar your wicked designs.
Here's a pretty tale for future Iliads and Odysseys Mortals are about to personate the gods and goddesses.
Dickens enabled him to personate with remarkable force the various characters of the story, and with admirable skill to pass rapidly from the hard, unbelieving Scrooge, to trusting and thankful Bob Cratchit, and from the genial fulness of Scrooge’s nephew, to the hideous mirth of the party assembled in Old Joe the Ragshop-keeper’s parlour.
How the legend originated cannot now be ascertained; but we may easily imagine several ways in which it might have originated; nor is it at all necessary to suppose, with Julius Frontinus, that two young men were dressed up by the Dictator to personate the sons of Leda.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1990).