BRING ONESELF

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative

Example:

He could not bring himself to call his parents

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "bring oneself" is one way to...):

coerce; force; hale; pressure; squeeze (to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE