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Personate

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

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Ascribe 76% connected

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a boo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Assign 76% connected

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Betray 76% connected

To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deceive 76% connected

To lead into error; to cause to believe what is false, or disbelieve what is true; to impose upon; to mislead; to cheat; to disappoint; to delude; to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impute 76% connected

To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 1

Masquerade 76% connected

An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.

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Incarnation 74% connected

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incarnation 74% connected

The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Person 74% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Person 74% connected

A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic represe…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Impersonate 92% connected

To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Personify 92% connected

To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pose 92% connected

Standing still, with all the feet on the ground; -- said of the attitude of a lion, horse, or other beast.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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