Word Finder - itself

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(reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject

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The door closed by itself

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It; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate

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The door itself is quite heavy.

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It; used to refer back to an earlier subject

It refilled itself as if by magic.

The wound healed itself quickly.

The problem will work itself out.

The picture itself rendered her speechless.

It repeats itself because it is the record of the choices of people.

When the opportunity presented itself, she grabbed it.

Roosevelt is saying that freedom itself cannot exist apart from some amount of economic liberty.

It buries itself alive.

This fire was already burning itself out.

As one problem worked itself out, another always seemed to take its place.

Suddenly facts fell into place, previously homeless happenings began making sense, and a picture arranged itself in Dean's mind.

The beast itself told her thus.

It must help itself; do as I do.

Exhaustion made itself known and her head nodded.

Her decision made itself.

The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed.

Now son, the house won't clean itself.

Maybe it's just the room itself.

If you told him that such a one was coming, he did as if he thought that anything so grand would expect nothing of himself, but take all the responsibility on itself, and let him be forgotten still.

No wonder that the earth expresses itself outwardly in leaves, it so labors with the idea inwardly.

My auxiliaries are the dews and rains which water this dry soil, and what fertility is in the soil itself, which for the most part is lean and effete.

Now that they were back in sync, would this unexplainable fear wedge itself between them?

The valley itself is 9 m.

With this " free " wave is combined a " forced " wave, generated, by the direct action of the sun and moon, within the Atlantic area itself.

Everything else would work itself out.

The decontamination chamber sealed itself.

It rises in the northern slopes of the Koh-i-Baba to the west of Kabul, and finally loses itself in the Tejend oasis north of the Trans-Caspian railway and west of Merv.

With Hegel the absolute is itself a dialectic process which contains within itself a principle of progress from difference to difference and from unity to unity.

Besides these two main races, Greek and Saracen, others came in through the Norman invasion itself.

Yet practically the new nobility was a privileged class; it felt itself to be so, and it was felt to be so by others.

And in the Great Council itself we have the lively image of the aristocratic popular assembly of Rome, the assembly of the populus, that of the curiae, where every man of patrician birth had his place.

A nobility of this kind often gave way to a democracy which either proved as turbulent as itself, or else grew into an oligarchy ruling under democratic forms. Thus at Florence the old nobles became the opposite to a privileged class.

The second Duma, which met on the 5th of March 1907, avoided some of the mistakes of its predecessor, but as a legislative assembly it showed itself equally incompetent, and a large section of its members were implicated in a well-organized attempt to spread sedition in the army by revolutionary propaganda.

Little did the dusky children think that the puny slip with its two eyes only, which they stuck in the ground in the shadow of the house and daily watered, would root itself so, and outlive them, and house itself in the rear that shaded it, and grown man's garden and orchard, and tell their story faintly to the lone wanderer a half-century after they had grown up and died--blossoming as fair, and smelling as sweet, as in that first spring.

But now this head was swaying helplessly with the uneven movements of the bearers, and the cold listless gaze fixed itself upon nothing.

A child knocks itself and runs at once to the arms of its mother or nurse to have the aching spot rubbed or kissed, and it feels better when this is done.

He seemed comfortable with his surroundings, which was surprising in itself.

Free will is shaping itself towards discussion in Aristotle's Ethics, but is hardly yet a formulated problem.

In Normandy itself, after the separation from England, architecture becomes French, but it is French of a remarkably good type.

That in the better times of the aristocracy nobility was not uncommonly granted to worthy persons, that in its worse times it was more commonly sold to unworthy persons, was the affair of the aristocratic body itself.

These had existed for a long time side by side, without knowing anything of each other, but when they perceived each other, the Light had only looked and then turned away; but the Darkness, seized with desire for the Light, had made itself master, not indeed of the Light itself, but only of its reflection (species, color).

The see was founded in 1503, but the cathedral itself dates from the 12th century, though it has been reconstructed.

Weaponized famine occurs when hunger itself is used to gain a political or military end.

We hardly understand the process, which itself seems unbelievable.

They said that a gentleman farmer, who was behind the scenes, wanted to double his money, which, as I understood, amounted to half a million already; but in order to cover each one of his dollars with another, he took off the only coat, ay, the skin itself, of Walden Pond in the midst of a hard winter.

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

It is wonderful how rapidly yet perfectly the sand organizes itself as it flows, using the best material its mass affords to form the sharp edges of its channel.

This generation inclines a little to congratulate itself on being the last of an illustrious line; and in Boston and London and Paris and Rome, thinking of its long descent, it speaks of its progress in art and science and literature with satisfaction.

The troops of the left flank, infantry and hussars alike, felt that the commander did not himself know what to do, and this irresolution communicated itself to the men.

So her future shaped itself in Mademoiselle Bourienne's head at the very time she was talking to Anatole about Paris.