identify oneself to someone—say or prove (as to the police, etc.) who or what a person is:
- Shortly before he died, the man identified himself to the police as Michael Howard, 29 years old.
identify oneself with someone —(also: identify with someone) feel that one shares the ideas, beliefs, problems, etc. of another person:
- The poet may be said, for the time, to identify himself with the character he wishes to represent.