itself meaning

EN[ˈɪtsɛlf] [-ɛlf]
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Definition of itself in English Dictionary

• PronounSUF-self+-
  1. (reflexive) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.
     1. The door closed by itself
  2. (emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate.
     1. The door itself is quite heavy.
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • Once again, the industry got itself in trouble and government had to bail it out.
     • Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
     • The most intriguing evidence is right next to Stonehenge itself — three big post holes that held tall totemlike timber poles.
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself.
     • Its relief scene includes 11 cupids harvesting and stomping on grapes to make wine in a lenos, a long trough similar to the sarcophagus itself.
     • Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Pronouns
     • Third person pronouns

Other Vocabulary

1. en atself
2. en ittself
3. en it self
4. en hitself
5. en himself