Usually means: Copy behavior or appearance closely.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word imitate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imitate: Merriam-Webster
  2. imitate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imitate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imitate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imitate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imitate, imitate: Wordnik
  7. imitate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imitate: Wiktionary
  9. imitate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imitate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imitate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Imitate, imitate: Dictionary.com
  13. imitate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Imitate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Imitate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. imitate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. imitate: Rhymezone
  18. imitate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. imitate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. imitate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. imitate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. imitate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. imitate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imitate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imitate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  To follow as a model or a pattern; to make a copy, counterpart or semblance of.

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