Definition of "impersonate"

impersonate

/ɪmˈpɜːsəneɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present impersonates, present participle impersonating, simple past and past participle impersonated
1. (transitive) To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of.
2. (transitive, computing) To operate with the permissions of a different user account.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.
  Quotations
  The shepherds were impersonated, then the Magi, finally Herod himself. In course of time all the elements of a fully developed Nativity play had thus been introduced.
  1918, Paul Studer, Le mystère d'Adam, an Anglo-Norman drama of the twelfth century‎