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Another word for mimic

Verb

  1. To copy (another) slavishly

    2. See also:

    same

  2. To copy (the manner or expression of another), especially in an exaggerated or mocking way

    3. Idioms:
    See also:

    same

Another word for mimic

Noun

  1. A performer skilled at copying the manner or expression of another

    2. See also:

    same

    performing-arts

  2. One who mindlessly imitates another

    3. See also:

    same

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Another word for mimic

Noun
    2. See also:

    imitator

    actor

Another word for mimic

Verb

  1. To imitate

    2. See also:

    imitate

  2. To mock

    3. See also:

    imitate

    ridicule

    parody

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Sentence Examples

  • In New Hampshire, I watched as another tried to mimic me and failed while no one even knew I was nearby.

  • In the Philippine Islands several species of Longicorns of the genus Doliops mimic hard inedible weevils (Curculionidae) of the genus Pachyrhynchus.

  • Sometimes it is only the males of a species of spider that mimic ants, as in the case of Ildebaha mutilloides and I.

  • between spiders and ants or spiders and beetles; yet even in this case both mimic and model have in common certain fundamental structural points to which the finishing touches completing the mimetic likeness are superadded.

  • In 1518, as a result of the war of the Comunidades of Castille, a mimic war broke out in Sancti Spiritus among its two score villagers.

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