- a reflexive form of it1: The battery recharges itself.
- an emphatic appositive of it1, which, that, this, or a noun: which itself is also true; Even without flowers, the bowl itself is beautiful.
- (used as the object of a preposition or as the direct or indirect object of a verb): The chameleon's ability to change color is a protection for itself.
- its normal or customary self: After much tender care, the puppy was soon itself again.
- the reflexive form of it 1
- (intensifier)
- its normal or usual self
