mime
verb/maɪm/
/maɪm/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they mime | /maɪm/ /maɪm/ |
| he / she / it mimes | /maɪmz/ /maɪmz/ |
| past simple mimed | /maɪmd/ /maɪmd/ |
| past participle mimed | /maɪmd/ /maɪmd/ |
| -ing form miming | /ˈmaɪmɪŋ/ /ˈmaɪmɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] to act, tell a story, etc. by moving your body and face but without speaking
- mime (something) Each player has to mime the title of a movie, play or book.
- mime doing something He mimed climbing a mountain.
- [intransitive, transitive] mime (to something) | mime (something) to pretend to sing a song that is actually being sung by somebody else on a recording
- The band was miming to a backing track.
Word Originearly 17th cent. (also in the sense ‘mimic or jester’): from Latin mimus, from Greek mimos.
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