bring oneself

1. 1.

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

   “He could not bring himself to call his parents”

   Broadercoerce

Questions about bring oneself

What does bring oneself mean?

bring oneself means "cause to undertake a certain action, usually used in the negative".

Is bring oneself a common word?

bring oneself is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.