themselves
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
themselves/ðəmˈselvz/
▶pronoun [third person pl.]
- 1 used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a group of people or things previously mentioned as the subject of the clause.
- 2 [emphatic] used to emphasize a group of people or things mentioned.
- 3 used instead of ‘himself’ or ‘herself’ to refer to a person of unspecified sex.
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