STEEL ONESELF AGAINST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does steel oneself against mean? 

• STEEL ONESELF AGAINST (verb)
  The verb STEEL ONESELF AGAINST has 1 sense:

1. prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant

  Familiarity information: STEEL ONESELF AGAINST used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STEEL ONESELF AGAINST (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

brace oneself for; prepare for; steel oneself against; steel onself for

Hypernyms (to "steel oneself against" is one way to...):

harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something