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ourselves

/ahr-selvz, ouuhr-, ou-er-/US // ɑrˈsɛlvz, aʊər-, ˌaʊ ər- //UK // (aʊəˈsɛlvz) //

我们自己,自己,我们自身,我们自己的

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : a reflexive form of we: We are deceiving ourselves. Give us a moment to ourselves.
    • : : We ourselves would never say such a thing.
    • : Informal.: The children and ourselves thank you kindly. When it satisfies ourselves, it will be ready to market. The ones who really want the new system are the manager and ourselves.
    • : : How many parents are as fortunate as ourselves? No one loves skiing more than ourselves. Nobody heard it but ourselves.
    • : our customary, normal, or healthy selves: After a good rest, we're almost ourselves again.

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Examples

  • We did ThunderAnt stuff for ourselves and just put it online, and then it blossomed into something else.

  • But we are afraid and we wonder to ourselves who will be next.

  • What could be more important, to make sure that side of things is right before we tie ourselves to someone forever?

  • Expectations, reasonable or unrealistic, remain so even if we impose them on ourselves.

  • Should we cancel gatherings, reunions, excursions, or throw ourselves into them with even more gratitude for one another?

  • It was in the college stage that most of us made out our religion and made it real for ourselves.

  • Calkilate we should do ourselves more harm than him by shooting down his people.

  • We won't want much more ourselves, for we are nearly at our last landing place.

  • That will give us time to turn about us, and to prepare ourselves against similar unpleasant casualties.

  • Oh, but surely if we have to call ourselves Wurzel-Flummery it would count as earned income.