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1. : to follow as a pattern, model, or example. 2. : mimic, counterfeit. can imitate his father's booming voice. 3. : to be or appear like : resemble. 4. : to produce a copy of : reproduce.
to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behaviour, etc. of someone or something: Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past. They produce artificial chemicals which exactly imitate particular natural ones. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Copying and copies.
Imitate, copy, duplicate, reproduce all mean to follow or try to follow an example or pattern. Imitate is the general word for the idea: to imitate someone's handwriting, behavior. To copy is to make a fairly exact imitation of an original creation: to copy a sentence, a dress, a picture.
to behave in a similar way to someone or something else, or to copy the speech or behavior, etc. of someone or something: Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past. They produce artificial chemicals which exactly imitate particular natural ones.
Definitions of 'imitate'. 1. If you imitate someone, you copy what they do or produce. [...] 2. If you imitate a person or animal, you copy the way they speak or behave, usually because you are trying to be funny. [...] More.
imitate, copy, duplicate, reproduce all mean to follow or try to follow an example or pattern. imitate is the general word for the idea: to imitate someone's handwriting, behavior. To copy is to make a fairly exact imitation of an original creation: to copy a sentence, a dress, a picture.
When you imitate someone, you copy them. Youth marketers capitalize on kids' desire to imitate ––tweens imitate teens, teens imitate young adults, and marketers supply the product lines to make it easy.
