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them·selves  (m-slvz, m-)
pron.
1. Those ones identical with them:
a. Used reflexively as the direct or indirect object of a verb or as the object of a preposition: prepared themselves for the trip; gave themselves plenty of time; were left to themselves.
b. Used for emphasis: The cooks themselves eat after all the guests have finished.
c. Used in an absolute construction: Newcomers themselves, they knew few people at the party.
2. Their normal or healthy condition: The members of the crew were themselves again after the crisis passed.

themselves
pron
1.
a. the reflexive form of they or them: two men barricaded themselves into a cell
b. used for emphasis: among the targets were police officers themselves
2. their normal or usual selves: they don't seem themselves these days
Translations

themselves [ðəmˈsɛlvz] pl pron (subject) → ellos mismos(ellas mismas);
(complement) → se;
(after prep) → sí (mismos/as) see also oneself
themselves [ðəmˈsɛlvz] pl pron (reflexive) → se;
(emphatic, after prep) → eux-mêmes(elles-mêmes);
between themselves → entre eux(elles) see also oneself
themselves [ðəmˈsɛlvz] pl pron (reflexive, after prep) → sich;
(emphatic, alone) → selbst;
between themselves → unter sich
themselves [ðəmˈsɛlvz] pl pron (reflexive) → si;
(emphatic) → loro stessi/e;
(after prep) → se stessi/e;
between themselves → tra (di) loro


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Infuriated by political animosity, the wives in many a noble household wearied their lords with prayers to give up their opposition to the Colour Bill; and some, finding their entreaties fruitless, fell on and slaughtered their innocent children and husband, perishing themselves in the act of carnage.
The cries of the fakirs were just ceasing; the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp, and it might be possible to slip between them to the temple itself.
They both have vehement wishes; they frame themselves readily into imaginations and suggestions; and they come easily into the eye, especially upon the present of the objects; which are the points that conduce to fascination, if any such thing there be.
 
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