dispassionately | (adverb) in an impartially dispassionate manner | - |
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dispassionateness | (noun) objectivity and detachment | Synonyms: dispassion, dryness |
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disproportionate | (adjective) out of proportion | Synonyms: disproportional |
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(adjective) not proportionate | - |
disproportionately | (adverb) to a disproportionate degree | - |
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(adverb) in a manner which is out of proportion | - |
disseminate | (verb) cause to become widely known | Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, diffuse, disperse, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread |
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dissemination | (noun) the act of dispersing or diffusing something | Synonyms: diffusion, dispersal, dispersion |
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(noun) the property of being diffused or dispersed | Synonyms: diffusion |
(noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: airing, public exposure, spreading |
disseminative | (adjective) spreading by diffusion | Synonyms: diffusing, diffusive, dispersive |
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disseminator | (noun) someone who spreads the news | Synonyms: propagator |
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dissonate | (verb) cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | Synonyms: disharmonize |
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(verb) be dissonant or harsh | - |
divination | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: foretelling, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: prophecy |
(noun) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck | - |
divinatory | (adjective) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy | Synonyms: mantic, sibyllic, sibylline, vatic, vatical |
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(adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
dominate | (verb) have dominance or the power to defeat over | Synonyms: master |
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(verb) be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance | Synonyms: predominate, prevail, reign, rule |
(verb) be in control | - |
(verb) look down on | Synonyms: command, overlook, overtop |
(verb) be greater in significance than | Synonyms: eclipse, overshadow |
dominated | (adjective) controlled or ruled by superior authority or power | - |
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(adjective) harassed by persistent nagging | Synonyms: henpecked |
dominating | (adjective) most powerful or important or influential | Synonyms: ascendant, ascendent |
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(adjective) offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power | Synonyms: autocratic, bossy, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory |
(adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, overlooking |
domination | (noun) social control by dominating | - |
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(noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: mastery, supremacy |
dominatrix | (noun) a dominating woman (especially one who plays that role in a sadomasochistic sexual relationship) | - |
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donate | (verb) give to a charity or good cause | - |
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donation | (noun) act of giving in common with others for a common purpose especially to a charity | Synonyms: contribution |
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(noun) a voluntary gift (as of money or service or ideas) made to some worthwhile cause | Synonyms: contribution |
eburnation | (noun) a change that occurs in degenerative joint disease in which bone is converted into a dense smooth substance resembling ivory | - |
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effeminate | (adjective) having unsuitable feminine qualities | Synonyms: cissy, emasculate, epicene, sissified, sissy, sissyish |
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effeminateness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, sissiness, softness, unmanliness, womanishness |
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eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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(verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
(verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
(verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
(verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
(verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
(verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
(noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
(noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
(noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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emanate | (verb) give out (breath or an odor) | Synonyms: exhale, give forth |
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(verb) proceed or issue forth, as from a source | - |
emanation | (noun) the act of emitting; causing to flow forth | Synonyms: emission |
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(noun) (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | Synonyms: procession, rise |
(noun) something that is emitted or radiated (as a gas or an odor or a light, etc.) | - |
emarginate | (adjective) having a notched tip | - |
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enate | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enatic, maternal |
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(noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: matrikin, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
enatic | (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, maternal |
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enation | (noun) a natural projection or outgrowth from a plant body or organ | Synonyms: plant process |
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(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family | Synonyms: cognation, matrilineage |
euthanatise | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatize, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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euthanatize | (verb) intentionally cause the painless death of a person or animal | Synonyms: euthanatise, euthanise, euthanize, mercy kill |
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examination | (noun) the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) | Synonyms: scrutiny |
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(noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: testing |
(noun) a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits) | Synonyms: examen |
(noun) a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge | Synonyms: exam, test |
(noun) formal systematic questioning | Synonyms: interrogation, interrogatory |
explanation | (noun) thought that makes something comprehensible | - |
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(noun) a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. | Synonyms: account |
(noun) the act of explaining; making something plain or intelligible | - |
explanatory | (adjective) serving or intended to explain or make clear | - |
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exterminate | (verb) kill en masse; kill on a large scale; kill many | Synonyms: kill off |
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(verb) destroy completely, as if down to the roots | Synonyms: eradicate, extirpate, root out, uproot |
exterminated | (adjective) destroyed completely | Synonyms: annihilated, wiped out |
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extermination | (noun) the act of exterminating | Synonyms: liquidation |
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(noun) complete annihilation | Synonyms: extinction |
exterminator | (noun) someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects) | Synonyms: eradicator, terminator |
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extortionate | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious |
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extortionately | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: exorbitantly, usuriously |
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fanatic | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatical, overzealous, rabid |
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(noun) a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause) | Synonyms: fiend |
fanatical | (adjective) marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea | Synonyms: fanatic, overzealous, rabid |
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fanatically | (adverb) in a passionately fanatic manner | - |
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fanaticism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanatism, zealotry |
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fanatism | (noun) excessive intolerance of opposing views | Synonyms: fanaticism, zealotry |
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fascinate | (verb) to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe | Synonyms: grip, spellbind, transfix |
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(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, trance |
(verb) cause to be interested or curious | Synonyms: intrigue |
fascinated | (adjective) having your attention fixated as though by a spell | Synonyms: hypnotised, hypnotized, mesmerised, mesmerized, spell-bound, spellbound, transfixed |
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fascinating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing |
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(adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, gripping, riveting |
fascinatingly | (adverb) in a fascinating manner | - |
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fascination | (noun) the capacity to attract intense interest | - |
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(noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enchantment, enthrallment |
(noun) the state of being intensely interested (as by awe or terror) | Synonyms: captivation |
festinate | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: hasten, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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foreordination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: predestination, predetermination, preordination |
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fortunate | (adjective) having unexpected good fortune | - |
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(adjective) presaging good fortune | Synonyms: rosy |
(adjective) supremely favored | Synonyms: golden |
fortunately | (adverb) by good fortune | Synonyms: as luck would have it, fortuitously, luckily |
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fractionate | (verb) obtain by a fractional process | - |
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(verb) separate into constituents or fractions containing concentrated constituents | - |
fractionation | (noun) separation into portions | - |
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(noun) a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its components | Synonyms: fractional process |
fulminate | (noun) a salt or ester of fulminic acid | - |
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(verb) cause to explode violently and with loud noise | - |
(verb) come on suddenly and intensely | - |
(verb) criticize severely | Synonyms: rail |
fulmination | (noun) the act of exploding with noise and violence | - |
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(noun) thunderous verbal attack | Synonyms: diatribe |
geminate | (noun) a doubled or long consonant | - |
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(verb) arrange or combine in pairs | - |
(verb) arrange in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) occur in pairs | Synonyms: pair |
(verb) form by reduplication | Synonyms: reduplicate |
gemination | (noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something | Synonyms: duplication |
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(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect) | - |
germinate | (verb) produce buds, branches, or germinate | Synonyms: bourgeon, burgeon forth, pullulate, shoot, sprout, spud |
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(verb) cause to grow or sprout | - |
(verb) work out | Synonyms: develop, evolve |
germination | (noun) the origin of some development | - |
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(noun) the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow | Synonyms: sprouting |
gnat | (noun) any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies | - |
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(noun) (British usage) mosquito | - |
gnatcatcher | (noun) very small North American and South American warblers | - |
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gnathion | (noun) the most inferior point of the mandible in the midline | - |
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gnathopod | (noun) One of a set of three paired appendages on the thorax of a decapod crustacean, located just posterior to the maxillae and used in feeding. | Synonyms: maxilliped |
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gnathostome | (noun) a vertebrate animal possessing true jaws | - |
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gubernatorial | (adjective) relating to a governor | - |
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haemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: hemagglutinate |
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haemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: hemagglutination |
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hallucinate | (verb) perceive what is not there; have illusions | - |
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hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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hallucination | (noun) a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea | Synonyms: delusion |
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(noun) an object perceived during a hallucinatory episode | - |
(noun) illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder | - |
hallucinatory | (adjective) characterized by or characteristic of hallucination | - |
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hemagglutinate | (verb) cause the clumping together (of red blood cells) | Synonyms: haemagglutinate |
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hemagglutination | (noun) agglutination of red blood cells | Synonyms: haemagglutination |
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hibernate | (verb) sleep during winter | Synonyms: hole up |
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(verb) be in an inactive or dormant state | - |
hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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hibernation | (noun) the act of retiring into inactivity | - |
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(noun) the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter | - |
(noun) cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals | - |
homogenate | (noun) material that has been homogenized (especially tissue that has been ground and mixed) | - |
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hydrogenate | (verb) combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | - |
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hydrogenation | (noun) a chemical process that adds hydrogen atoms to an unsaturated oil | - |
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hypernatremia | (noun) excessive amounts of sodium in the blood; possibly indicating diabetes insipidus | - |
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hyphenate | (verb) divide or connect with a hyphen | Synonyms: hyphen |
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hyphenation | (noun) connecting syllables and words by hyphens | - |
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(noun) division of a word especially at the end of a line on a page | Synonyms: word division |
hypognathous | (adjective) having a projecting lower jaw | Synonyms: prognathic, prognathous |
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hyponatremia | (noun) abnormally low level of sodium in the blood; associated with dehydration | - |
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illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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(verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
(verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
illuminated | (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted |
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illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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illumination | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: miniature |
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(noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illuminance |
(noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, elucidation |
(noun) the degree of visibility of your environment | - |
(noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: light |
imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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imparipinnate | (adjective) (a leaf shape) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex | Synonyms: odd-pinnate |
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impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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(verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
(verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
impersonation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: personation |
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(noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: imposture |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, imitation |