impersonating

Verb

impersonate (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, especially when there is an intent to deceive.
   • The conman managed to impersonate several executives.

   Synonyms:

   personate

2. (transitive) To operate with the permissions of a different user account.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To manifest in corporeal form; to personify.
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   embody, impersonize