Impersonated dopes, oddly (5)
I believe the answer is:
posed
'impersonated' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with communicating as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'dopes oddly' is the wordplay.
'oddly' is an anagram indicator (letters in an odd order).
'dopes' anagrammed gives 'POSED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for posed that I've seen before include "Struck attitude - sat for painter" , "Positioned" , "Struck attitude, perhaps for painter" , "Sat (for artist)" , "Arranged for pictorial purposes" .)