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Betake :: Betake (v. t.) To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

Commit :: Commit (v. t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course..

Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Having for its direct object a pronoun which refers to the agent or subject as its antecedent; -- said of certain verbs; as, the witness perjured himself; I bethought myself. Applied also to pronouns of this class; reciprocal; reflective..

Overeat :: Overeat (v. t. & i.) To eat to excess; -- often with a reflexive.

Quit :: Quit (a.) To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively..

Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..

Hydrophobia :: Hydrophobia (n.) The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow, or is disturbed in any way, as by the sight or sound of water; rabies; canine madness..

Sequester :: Sequester (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.

Behave :: Behave (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.

Reimburse :: Reimburse (v. t.) To make restoration or payment of an equivalent to (a person); to pay back to; to indemnify; -- often reflexive; as, to reimburse one's self by successful speculation..

Slue :: Slue (v. t.) In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used reflexively and followed by round..

Address :: Address (v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.

Repent :: Repent (v. t.) To feel regret or sorrow; -- used reflexively.

Retroflexion :: Retroflexion (n.) The act of reflexing; the state of being retroflexed. Cf. Retroversion.

Excito-secretory :: Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action..

Deport :: Deport (v. t.) To carry or demean; to conduct; to behave; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

Consensual :: Consensual (v. i.) Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions..

Reflex :: Reflex (a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

Recoupe :: Recoupe (v. t.) To reimburse; to indemnify; -- often used reflexively and in the passive.

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