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mime (verb), mimes; mimed; miming
1. To act out without speaking but only with gestures, facial expressions and bodily movements: The young actors mimed as if they were eating apples.
2. To imitate a person, a manner, etc.; especially, for satirical effects: In their English class at school, Sally had to mime a painter and the other students had to guess whom she was trying to represent.
3. Etymology: "a buffoon who practices gesticulations" from, 1603, from French mime, from Latin mimus; from Greek mimos, "imitator, actor, buffoon".

The verb meaning "to act without words" is from 1616 and the sense of "to imitate" is from 1733.

To imitate the movements of someone to make fun of him or her.
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mimes
1. The use of movements of the hands and body, with expressions on the face, without speech, to communicate emotions and actions or to tell a story.
2. Pretending to sing, to play, or to say things without making any sounds.