Can ‘very’ mean ‘exact/precise’

word-usage

There's a part of a dialogue in a movie I saw:

If the patient who killed herself in this room, in this very tub, is
here now, make yourself known.

I've looked up the definition of very (adjective) in Oxford dictionary; it's used to emphasize a noun. Is it possibly the other way to say the exact/precise place that the speaker's talking about?

For example, the word very, am I using it correctly in these sentences below?:

  1. She sat in this very chair last night.
  2. I will sleep on this very bed.
  3. There was a man standing on this very bench.

Best Answer

From wiktionary

very, adj.
The same; identical.
He proposed marriage in the same restaurant, at the very table where they first met.

Your examples are all acceptable usage.

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