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imitate

v. make a reproduction or copy of

imitate

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

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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

caricature, ape

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"

satirize, satirise, lampoon

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

clone

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

reenact

v. enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

falsify, distort, garble, warp

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

v. produce naturally; "this gland manufactures a specific substance only"

plagiarize, plagiarise, lift

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

fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent

v. tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data"

perform

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

dissemble, pretend, act

v. behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting"

forge, fake, counterfeit

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

manufacture

v. create or produce in a mechanical way; "This novelist has been manufacturing his books following his initial success"

raise, erect, rear, set up, put up

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

victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con

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, beguile, hoodwink

v. influence by slyness

deceive, lead on, delude, cozen

v. be false to; be dishonest with

sophisticate, doctor, doctor up

v. alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol"

abuse

v. use wrongly or improperly or excessively; "Her husband often abuses alcohol"; "while she was pregnant, she abused drugs"

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"

dramatize, dramatise, adopt

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

v. make a copy by means of a Photostat device

parallel, collimate

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

appear, come along

v. come into being or existence, or appear on the scene; "Then the computer came along and changed our lives"; "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"

seem

v. appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters"

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

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"

consider, take, deal, look at

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

reproduce

v. recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.; "this DVD player reproduces the sound of the piano very well"; "He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait"

imitate

v. make a reproduction or copy of

forge, fake, counterfeit

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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