mimic
[verb]
Synonyms:
- imitate, ape, caricature, do (informal), impersonate, parody, take off (informal)
[noun]
Synonyms:
- imitator, caricaturist, copycat (informal), impersonator, impressionist

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Related Words: hit off, mime, mum, act, do, enact, impersonate, perform, personate, play, copycat, pantomime

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I. mim‧ic¹ /ˈmɪmɪk/ verb (past tense and past participle mimicked, present participle mimicking) [transitive]
[Date: 1500-1600; Origin: mimic 'copying' (16-21 centuries), from Latin mimicus, from Greek, from mimos; ⇒ mime¹]

1. to copy the way someone speaks or behaves, especially in order to make people laugh Synonym : imitate, take off:
He could mimic all the teachers’ accents.
‘I’m so sorry,’ she mimicked.

2. to behave or operate in exactly the same way as something or someone else:
Europe should not try to mimic Japan: we have to find our own path to successful modernisation.
The drug mimics the action of the body’s own chemicals.

3. if an animal mimics something, it looks or sounds very like it:
a fly whose size and colour exactly mimics that of the wasp
—mimicry noun [uncountable]:
He has a gift for mimicry.

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II. mimic² noun [countable]
a person or animal that is good at copying the movements, sound, or appearance of someone or something else ⇒ impressionist, impersonator

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mimic
verb
ADV. accurately, closely The computer model is able to mimic very closely the actions of a golfer.
exactly, perfectly She could mimic her father perfectly.
VERB + MIMIC try to

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