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oneself
[ wuhn-self, wuhnz- ]
pronoun
- a person's self (used for emphasis or reflexively):
One often hurts oneself accidentally.
Word History and Origins
Origin of oneself1
Idioms and Phrases
- be oneself,
- to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition.
- to be unaffected and sincere:
One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- by oneself,
- without a companion; alone.
- through one's own efforts; unaided:
to become a millionaire by oneself.
- come to oneself, Also come to one's self.
- Also come to. to regain consciousness.
- to regain one's self-possession; come to one's senses.
More idioms and phrases containing oneself
see avail (oneself) of ; be oneself ; beside oneself ; burn (oneself) out ; by oneself ; cover one's ass (oneself) ; crank (oneself) up ; do oneself in ; excuse me (oneself) ; exert oneself ; explain oneself ; express oneself ; fall all over (oneself) ; feel like oneself ; find oneself ; flatter oneself ; fling oneself at ; forget oneself ; full of oneself ; get a grip on (oneself) ; give a good account of oneself ; give of oneself ; give (oneself) away ; give oneself up ; have oneself ; hear oneself think ; help oneself ; keep to oneself ; kick oneself ; knock oneself out ; law unto oneself ; lay (oneself) open ; leave (oneself) open ; let (oneself) go ; live with (oneself) ; lose oneself in ; make a laughingstock of oneself ; make a name for oneself ; make an exhibition of oneself ; make a nuisance of oneself ; make a pig of oneself ; make oneself at home ; make oneself scarce ; not oneself ; paint oneself into a corner ; plume oneself ; pride oneself on ; pull oneself together ; pull oneself up ; put oneself out ; relieve oneself ; repeat oneself ; shift for oneself ; shoot oneself in the foot ; spread oneself too thin ; suit oneself ; sure of oneself ; take it upon oneself ; throw oneself at ; tie oneself in knots ; trouble one's head (oneself) about .Example Sentences
The ability to easily record oneself and post videos online for the world to see changed the way fresh talent could be discovered by Hollywood.
Mounting a rebellion means resigning oneself to accepting loss after loss after loss until you finally pull out a victory.
As one of the good guys grimly puts it, mounting a rebellion means resigning oneself to accepting loss after loss after loss until you finally pull out a victory.
Signing pictures of oneself is what an actor does.
This has coincided with a "shift in attitude" towards cosmetic procedures over the past decade because of a movement in society "towards wellness and looking after oneself", she said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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