Definitions for themselves

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themselves them·selves

Spelling: [th uh m-selvz, th em-]

IPA: /ðəmˈsɛlvz, ˌðɛm-/

Themselves is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in themselves (eeehlmsstv).

Definitions for themselves

pronoun

1. an emphatic form of them or they:
2. a reflexive form of they (used as the direct or indirect object of a verb or the object of a preposition):
3. (used with a singular indefinite pronoun or singular noun antecedent in place of the definite masculine himself or the definite feminine herself):
4. (used in place of they or them after as, than, or but):
5. their usual, normal, characteristic selves:

Origin of themselves

1300-50; them + selves; replacing themself, Middle English thamself; see self

Examples for themselves

Let us measure what we will do for others by what they will do for themselves.

Now they are a notch on a belt, and the savior can feel good about themselves.

Regardless, few had been given any reason to believe they could build a life for themselves beyond the streets.

Government must learn to take less from people so that people can do more for themselves.

Surface manifestations are, in and of themselves, merely deceptive.

An hour's silence with these two people by themselves might have worked wonders.

Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.

The reviews in themselves constitute a demonstration of why the regime restricts the Internet.

The truths in themselves were enough to bear telling and retelling.

My parents are building a mausoleum for themselves in my childhood home.