EGAVE

itself

About 171.36 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
  3. 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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