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imitate

verb

1 imitate

Reproduce someone's behavior or looks:
— The mime imitated the passers-by.

synonyms: copy, simulate.

Roget 788: borrow, desume.    hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year &c.; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year ... show more

Roget 19: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.    ... show more

Roget 17: be similar etc. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of, approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate ... show more

2 imitate

Appear like, as in behavior or appearance.

Dutch: imiteren, kopiƫren, nabootsen, nadoen

3 imitate

Make a reproduction or copy of.

Dutch: imiteren, nabootsen


Moby thesaurus: act like, adopt, affect, ape, appear like, approach, appropriate, approximate, assume, be like, be redolent of, bear resemblance, borrow, bring to mind, burlesque, call to mind, call up, caricature, chorus, come again ... show more.

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imitated

adjective

Roget 19: imitated etc. v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.    paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, ... show more

Moby thesaurus: alike, aped, consimilar, copied, counterfeit, ersatz, fake, favoring, following, homogeneous, identical, imitation, like, mimicked, mock, nearly reproduced, not unlike, phony, resembling, similar ... show more.

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