Themselves Definition

thĕm-sĕlvz, thəm-

pronoun

Those ones identical with them:

American Heritage

A form of they, used:

Webster's New World

Their normal or healthy condition.

The members of the crew were themselves again after the crisis passed.

American Heritage

(the reflexive case of they, the third-person plural personal pronoun) The people previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition, where the people are also the subject of the verb; also used for emphasis.

(reflexively): They've hurt themselves.

(after a preposition): They fought among themselves.

(for emphasis): They are going to try climbing Mount Everest themselves.

Wiktionary

The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned, as the object of a verb or following a preposition, where the person is also the subject of the verb; also used for emphasis.

(reflexively): Would whoever stole my phone please make themselves known.

(after a preposition): They've brought this on themselves.

(for emphasis): The children did this themselves.

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