What does "yourselves" mean?

Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).

What is a synonym for "yourselves"?

Common synonyms include: alter ego, better self, ego, he, her, him.

//jəˈsɛlvz// pron

pron ·Moderate ·College level

Pronoun

1
Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed). form-of, pronoun, reflexive, second-person
"You shouldn't blame yourselves."
2
You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed. emphatic, second-person
"You yourselves won’t eat at that restaurant. Why are you recommending it to us?"

"You don't have to trouble yourselves."

Morphologically your + -selves.

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