Usually means: Impersonate or represent someone else.
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  1. personate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. personate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. personate, personate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. personate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. personate: Vocabulary.com
  6. personate: Wordnik
  7. personate: Wiktionary
  8. personate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. personate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. personate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. personate: Dictionary.com
  12. Personate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. personate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. personate: Rhymezone
  15. Personate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. personate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. personate: Free Dictionary
  18. personate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. personate: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personate: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. personate, personate: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See personated as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (personate)

verb:  (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
verb:  (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
verb:  (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
verb:  (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
adjective:  (botany, now uncommon) Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (in a way reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To celebrate loudly; to extol, to praise.

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