steel oneself against
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prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
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Classifications
Cognitive
Understand72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Responsibility
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Automation
Unclassified—trigger_default_value
Variants
- synonym
- brace oneself forprepare forsteel onself for
- pasttense
- steeled oneself against
- presentparticiple
- steeling oneself against
- thirdpersonsingular
- steels oneself against
- pastparticiple
- steeled oneself against
Framework definitions
- §1
- prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasant
- §1 · legacy_primary
- prepare mentally or emotionally for something unpleasantDR-088 backfill from the verb definition column
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