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itself definition

it·self (it self′)

pronoun

a form of it, used:
  1. as an intensifier the work itself is easy
  2. as a reflexive the dog bit itself
  3. with the meaning “its real, true, or normal self” [the bird is not itself today]: in this construction, it functions as an adjective and self as a noun; when they are separated, the form its is used its own sweet self

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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