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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Look on as or consider
Example:
He is reputed to be intelligent
Synonyms:
be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "look upon" is one way to...):
believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples:
It is only when I look upon the untroubled faces of my comrades that I see some glimmer through the darkness.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I always look upon her as able to persuade a person to anything!
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
As to the pretence of trying her native air, I look upon that as a mere excuse.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I wish Margaret were married, for my poor friend's sake, for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
From the baffled look upon Holmes’s face, I could see clearly that he did.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For each winter the sun leaves the land in darkness, and the next year a new sun returns so that they may be warm again and look upon one another's faces.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
In fashion distantly resembling the way men look upon the gods they create, so looked White Fang upon the man-animals before him.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
But my good star would have it, that he appeared pleased with my voice and gestures, and began to look upon me as a curiosity, much wondering to hear me pronounce articulate words, although he could not understand them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was thought that she could hardly live a few hours, but it would be a great consolation to her to see an English doctor, and, if I would only return, etc. The good Steiler assured me in a postscript that he would himself look upon my compliance as a very great favour, since the lady absolutely refused to see a Swiss physician, and he could not but feel that he was incurring a great responsibility.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where all my troubles would be ended speedily; and though I could, perhaps, bear to die, I could not bear to look upon my fate as it approached.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
