EGAVE

ourselves

About 34.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. pronoun Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.
    We should keep this for ourselves.
  2. pronoun Intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate or needs to be included.
    We did it ourselves.
  3. pronoun Referring to everyone being addressed.
    Come on everyone! Let's get ourselves up and out of bed, please.
  4. pronoun Referring to an individual person being addressed, especially a person in the speaker's care; also ourself.
    Hello Mrs Miggins. Did we manage to wash ourselves this morning?

Similar words

alone creating even herself himself itself oneself ours personally saami

Often followed by

to in and with as that from of the

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