imitate

  • 21imitate —   Ho opili, ho o .   Also: mahu i, ho omahu i, ho ohele; ho omā auwē (to ridicule by mimicking); ho oniau.    ♦ Imitate birds, kūhea manu.    ♦ He imitates Hawaiians, ho ohawai i oia …

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  • 22imitate — / ɪmɪteɪt/ verb to do what someone else does ● They imitate all our sales gimmicks …

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  • 23imitate deceptively — index feign Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 24imitate falsely — index forge (counterfeit) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 25imitate fraudulently — index forge (counterfeit) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 26imitate insultingly — index disparage, jape Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 27imitate — verb a) To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of. b) To copy. See Also: imitation, imitative …

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  • 28imitate — Synonyms and related words: 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 …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 29imitate — im|i|tate [ ımı,teıt ] verb transitive * 1. ) to copy something: Italian ice cream is imitated all over the world. 2. ) to copy someone s actions, words, or behavior, often in order to make people laugh: MIMIC: Stop that, now! he said, imitating… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 30imitate — [16] Latin imitāri meant ‘make a copy of’. It was formed from the base *im , which also lies behind the Latin ancestors of English emulate [16] and image; all three words share the basic meaning element ‘likeness’. English acquired the word via… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins