Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Impersonate has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
assume or act the character of
"She impersonates Madonna"
"The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man"
represent another person with comic intentions
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
"She posed as the Czar's daughter"
To pretend to be (a different person); to assume the identity of.