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“miming”
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".
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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.
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mimo-, mim-, -mimesis, -mimia, -mimetic, -mime, -mimic, -mimical, -mimically
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