itself
About 171.36 uses per million words.
Meaning
- pronoun it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject
When the opportunity presented itself, no feasible course of action suggested itself (to us).
- pronoun it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate
The door itself is quite heavy.
- pronoun it; used to refer back to an earlier subject
Similar words
him himself oneself ourselves sam same thing yourself solo singly
Often followed by
to in is and as a was with the
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