Synonyms:
imitate, copy, simulate
Meaning: reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"
Synonyms:
imitate
Meaning: appear like, as in behavior or appearance; "Life imitate art"
Usage examples
But his ability to imitate sounds is not an accurate measure of his ability to hear.
He lived an example of holiness to us all: if God, how can our humanity imitate Deity?
In some things nature has lavished upon them charms and beauties which no human skill can imitate.
Hence it is this side which is often coloured so as to imitate the objects on which these insects commonly rest.
And I am sure I often feel quite stirred up by a really good novel, and admire and want to imitate every high-minded, noble character it describes.
If his hearing is not too seriously impaired, he will begin to attempt to imitate spoken sounds by the time he is twenty-four to thirty months old.
The hearing baby babbles because he gets some pleasure from the sounds, and also because he desires to imitate the sounds of speech he hears around him.
A disembodied ideal, however, is unmanageable and vague; it cannot exercise the natural and material suasion proper to a model we are expected to imitate.
Because Lazarus could not imitate them in this, he went to the forest, tied all the trees together with a thick rope, and remained in the forest till evening.
As to his looks, good or bad, they were said to prove infallibly fatal with women, while not a few men, perhaps for that reason, did their possessor the honour to imitate them.