verb [VN]
1 to copy sb/sth:
Her style of painting has been imitated by other artists. * Art imitates Nature. * Teachers provide a model for children to imitate. * No computer can imitate the complex functions of the human brain.
2 to copy the way a person speaks or behaves, in order to amuse people
SYNMIMIC:
She knew that the girls used to imitate her and laugh at her behind her back.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for imitate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does imitate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — imitate appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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