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feel oneself

Variant of feel

transitive verb felt, feeling

  1. to touch or handle in order to become aware of; examine or test by touching or handling
  2. to perceive or be aware of through physical sensation: to feel rain on the face
    1. to experience (an emotion or condition): to feel joy, pain, etc.
    2. to be moved by or very sensitive to: to feel death keenly
  3. to be aware of through intellectual perception: to feel the weight of an argument
  4. to think or believe, often for unanalyzed or emotional reasons: he feels that we should go

intransitive verb

  1. to have physical sensation; be sentient
  2. to appear to be to the senses, esp. to the sense of touch: the water feels warm
  3. to have the indicated emotional effect: it feels good to be wanted
  4. to try to find something by touching; grope (for)
  5. to be or be aware of being: to feel sad, sick, certain, etc.
  6. to be moved to sympathy, pity, etc. (for)

noun

  1. the act of feeling; perception by the senses
  2. the sense of touch
  3. the nature of a thing as perceived through touch: the feel of wet sawdust
  4. an emotional sensation or effect: the feel of happiness
  5. instinctive ability or appreciation: a feel for design

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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