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reflexive

 adjective
     
re‧flex‧ive technical
SLG a reflexive verb or pronoun shows that the action in a sentence affects the person or thing that does the action. In the sentence 'I enjoyed myself', 'myself' is reflexive
—reflexive noun [countable]
—reflexively adverb
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