Verb
- 1. pose, impersonate, personate, deceive, betray, lead astray
- usage: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter"
- 2. personify, personate, impute, ascribe, assign, attribute
- usage: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
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