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oneself
[wuhn-self, wuhnz-]
pronoun
a person's self (used for emphasis or reflexively).
One often hurts oneself accidentally.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of oneself1
Idioms and Phrases
by oneself,
without a companion; alone.
through one's own efforts; unaided.
to become a millionaire by oneself.
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.
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.
Example Sentences
But to fall into that mode of thinking requires blinding oneself to what the court is doing, why it was warped by moneyed interests in order to do it, and all the ways democracy has paid the price for this capture.
These experiences may involve frightening and anxiety-ridden experiences like hallucinations, or things like the dissolution of the ego, which can be disorienting and lead to a feeling of dissociation with oneself.
Hahn: I think it’s a command of oneself, like an authorship of oneself and autonomy.
Some ethical concerns have been raised about using this technology to conduct experiments due in part to the possibility that they could increase depersonalization, a feeling of detachment from oneself that has been described as “observing the world from behind glass.”
“Serving tea to-go is to miss the entire point of tea. Tea is time. An excuse to enjoy a moment, a pause, a rest — either with oneself or the company of others,” said Brewer.
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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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