steel oneself against
verbverified·updated Jun 3, 2026
prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
MWE
Classifications
Cognitive
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Responsibility
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
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Automation
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Variants
- synonym
- brace oneself forprepare forsteel onself for
- pasttense
- steeled oneself against
- presentparticiple
- steeling oneself against
- thirdpersonsingular
- steels oneself against
- pastparticiple
- steeled oneself against