to personate is a form of:

Personate



Same as: masked
ENGLISH MEANING
adjective
1.
Having the throat of a bilabiate corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.
verb
1.
(TRANSITIVE) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
2.
(TRANSITIVE) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion.
3.
(TRANSITIVE) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.
4.
(TRANSITIVE) To personify; to typify; to describe.
5.
(INTRANSITIVE) To play or assume a character.