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deem
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb deem has 1 sense
- deem(v = verb.cognition) hold, take for, view as - keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible" is one way to consider, reckon, regard, see, view
Sample sentences:
Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
OXFORD DICTIONARY
deem, v.tr. formal regard, consider, judge (deem it my duty; was deemed sufficient).
Etymology
OE deman f. Gmc, rel. to DOOM
THESAURUS
deem
account, account as, adjudge, adjudicate, allow, assume, be afraid, be judicious, believe, calculate, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, count, credit, daresay, deduce, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, exercise judgment, expect, express an opinion, fancy, feel, form an opinion, gather, grant, guess, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, imagine, infer, judge, know, let, let be, look upon as, maintain, new, opine, pine, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, reckon, regard, repute, say, sense, set down as, suppose, surmise, suspect, suspicion, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, think of, trow, understand, view as, ween
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