Usually means: Imitate someone or something closely.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word mimic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mimic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mimic: Merriam-Webster
  3. mimic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mimic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mimic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mimic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mimic, mimic: Wordnik
  8. mimic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mimic: Wiktionary
  10. mimic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mimic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mimic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. MIMIC: Dictionary.com
  14. mimic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mimic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MIMIC, Mimic (Dungeons & Dragons), Mimic (Exiles), Mimic (comics), Mimic (disambiguation), Mimic (film), Mimic, The Mimic (TV series), The Mimic (film), The Mimic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mimic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mimic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mimic: Rhymezone
  20. mimic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mimic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mimic: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mimic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mimic: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. -mimic: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Mimic: bizterms.net
  3. Mimic: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Mimic (software), mimic: Legal dictionary
  5. Mimic (software), Mimic: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MIMIC: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. MIMIC, Mimic (software): Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. mimic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Mimic (software), mimic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MIMIC: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mimic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mimicing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To imitate, especially in order to ridicule.
verb:  (biology, transitive) To take on the appearance of another, for protection or camouflage.
noun:  A person who practices mimicry; especially:
noun:  A mime.
noun:  A comic who does impressions.
noun:  An entity that mimics another entity, such as a disease that resembles another disease in its signs and symptoms; see the great imitator.
noun:  An imitation.
noun:  (fantasy, roleplaying games) A fictional monster able to disguise itself as an inanimate object, commonly a treasure chest, often with the intent of luring adventurers into a trap.
adjective:  Pertaining to mimicry; imitative.
adjective:  Mock, pretended.
adjective:  (mineralogy) Imitative; characterized by resemblance to other forms; applied to crystals which by twinning resemble simple forms of a higher grade of symmetry.

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