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STEEL ONSELF FOR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does steel onself for mean?
• STEEL ONSELF FOR (verb)
The verb STEEL ONSELF FOR has 1 sense:
1. prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
Familiarity information: STEEL ONSELF FOR used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 onself for" is one way to...):
harden; indurate; inure (cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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