IMITATE


Meaning of IMITATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmɪteɪt ]

( imitates, imitating, imitated)

1.

If you imitate someone, you copy what they do or produce.

...a genuine German musical which does not try to imitate the American model.

VERB : V n

2.

If you imitate a person or animal, you copy the way they speak or behave, usually because you are trying to be funny.

Clarence screws up his face and imitates the Colonel again.

= mimic

VERB : V n

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