personate vs lead astray

personate and lead astray both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
personate	No	No	Yes	No
lead astray	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, lead astray is a hypernym of personate; that is, lead astray is a word with a broader meaning than personate:

personate: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions
lead astray: cause someone to believe an untruth

Other hypernyms of personate include betray, deceive.

personate (verb)	lead astray (verb)
attribute human qualities to something	cause someone to believe an untruth
pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions	lead someone in the wrong direction or give someone wrong directions
	teach immoral behavior to