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yourself

/jɚˈsɛlf/ pronoun A1
  1. Your own self (singular). · Be careful with that fire or you'll burn yourself.· After a good night's sleep you'll feel like yourself again.
  2. You (singular); used emphatically, especially to indicate exclusiveness of the referent's participation in the predicate, i.e., that no one else is involved. · You yourself know that what you wrote was wrong.
  3. Oneself. · These days you have to watch yourself in the center of the city.
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If you, who are Great and Terrible, cannot kill her yourself, how do you expect me to do it?”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 70 · B2
“Explain yourself.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 20 · C1
“Make yourself perfectly at home,” said the green girl, “and if you wish for anything ring the bell.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 66 · B2
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!”
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 33 · B2

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