{
    "term": "myself",
    "partOfSpeech": "pronoun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "used when the speaker or writer is also the person affected by an action",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I cut myself on a knife."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I wrote a message to myself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I found myself unable to speak."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I haven't been feeling myself recently *(= I have not felt well)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I needed space to be myself *(= not influenced by other people)*."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "used to emphasize the fact that the speaker is doing something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'll speak to her myself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I myself do not agree."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "alone; without anyone else",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I live by myself."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "without help",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I painted the room all by myself."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "for the speaker or writer alone to have or use; not shared",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I had a whole pizza to myself."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈself/",
                "audio": "my/myself/myself__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/maɪˈself/",
                "audio": "my/myself/myself__us_3.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English me self, from the pronoun me + the adjective self; the change of me to my occurred in Middle English."
}