itself

  1. Pronoun.  (reflexive) it; (non-gloss definition, A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject) .
  2. Pronoun.  (context, emphatic) it; (non-gloss definition, used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate) .

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