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v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

ape, copy

v. appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

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ape, copy, imitate

v. appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"

parody, spoof, burlesque

v. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

impersonate

v. represent another person with comic intentions

ape, caricature

v. represent in or produce a caricature of; "The drawing caricatured the President"

mime, pantomime

v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

lampoon, satirize, ridicule with a satire

v. ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal"

clone

v. make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"

model, simulate, reenact, re-enact

v. create again

warp, falsify, distort, garble

v. make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

fashion, forge

v. make out of components (often in an improvising manner); "She fashioned a tent out of a sheet and a few sticks"

manufacture, construct, fabricate

v. put together out of components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"

lift, plagiarize, plagiarise

v. take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property

fake, wangle, fudge, cook, manipulate, falsify, play with, misrepresent, tamper with

v. fake or falsify; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

perform, give a performance

v. give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

act, play, represent

v. play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master"

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

manufacture, make up, invent, fabricate, cook up

v. make up something artificial or untrue

raise, rear, put up, set up, erect

v. construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"

bunco, con, gyp, swindle, rook, mulct, nobble, diddle, defraud

v. deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

juggle, hoodwink, beguile

v. influence by slyness

lead on, deceive, cozen, delude, mislead knowingly

v. be false to; be dishonest with

doctor, sophisticate, adulterate, doctor up

v. alter with the intention to deceive

abuse, misuse, pervert

v. change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers"

appear

v. appear as a character on stage or appear in a play, etc.; "Gielgud appears briefly in this movie"; "She appeared in `Hamlet' on the London stage"

adapt, dramatize, dramatise

v. put into dramatic form; "adopt a book for a screenplay"

mimeograph, mimeo

v. print copies from (a prepared stencil) using a mimeograph; "She mimeographed the syllabus"

photostat, Photostat

v. make a copy by means of a Photostat device

parallel, collimate, make parallel

v. make or place parallel to something; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway"

look, appear, seem

v. give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time"

appear, seem

v. come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"

mull, meditate, ponder, contemplate, muse, reflect, ruminate, speculate, chew over, mull over, think over

v. reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

take, consider, look at, deal with

v. take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"

copy, recreate

v. make a replica of; "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"

reproduce, procreate, multiply

v. have offspring or young; "The deer in our neighborhood reproduce madly"; "The Catholic Church tells people to procreate, no matter what their economic situation may be"

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

counterfeit, fake, forge

v. make a copy of with the intent to deceive; "he faked the signature"; "they counterfeited dollar bills"; "She forged a Green Card"

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