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Pique :: Pique (v. t.) To pride or value; -- used reflexively.

Recollect :: Recollect (v. t.) Reflexively, to compose one's self; to recover self-command; as, to recollect one's self after a burst of anger; -- sometimes, formerly, in the perfect participle..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself..

Reflective :: Reflective (a.) Reflexive; reciprocal.

Comport :: Comport (v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.

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

Oneself :: Oneself (pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self..

Shrive :: Shrive (v. t.) To confess, and receive absolution; -- used reflexively..

Myself :: Myself (pron.) I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself..

Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..

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

Remember :: Remember (v. t.) To put in mind; to remind; -- also used reflexively and impersonally.

Buckle :: Buckle (n.) To prepare for action; to apply with vigor and earnestness; -- generally used reflexively.

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

Cross :: Cross (v. t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself..

Estrange :: Estrange (v. t.) To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with..

Give :: Give (n.) To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder; also in this sense used very frequently in the past participle; as, the people are given to luxury and pleasure; the youth is given to study..

Resign :: Resign (v. t.) To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively..

Steal :: Steal (v. t.) To withdraw or convey clandestinely (reflexive); hence, to creep furtively, or to insinuate..

Demean :: Demean (v. t.) To debase; to lower; to degrade; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun.

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