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BRING ONESELF
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bring oneself mean?
• BRING ONESELF (verb)
The verb BRING ONESELF has 1 sense:
1. cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative
Familiarity information: BRING ONESELF used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Context example:
He could not bring himself to call his parents
Hypernyms (to "bring oneself" is one way to...):
coerce; force; hale; pressure; squeeze (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
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