verb, noun
verb (-ck-)
1 to copy the way sb speaks, moves, behaves, etc., especially in order to make other people laugh:
[VN] She's always mimicking the teachers. * He mimicked her southern accent. [also Vspeech]
2 [VN] to look or behave like sth else
SYNIMITATE:
The robot was programmed to mimic a series of human movements. * the creation of a vaccine that mimics the virus
noun a person or an animal that can copy the voice, movements, etc. of others
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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 mimic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does mimic appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — mimic appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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