REGARD AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does regard as mean? 

• REGARD AS (verb)
  The verb REGARD AS has 1 sense:

1. look on as or consider

  Familiarity information: REGARD AS used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REGARD AS (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Look on as or consider

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

be known as; esteem; know as; look on; look upon; regard as; repute; take to be; think of

Context example:

He is reputed to be intelligent

Hypernyms (to "regard as" is one way to...):

believe; conceive; consider; think (judge or regard; look upon; judge)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

“I am quite done with that person; and I beg that you will spare me any allusion to one whom I regard as dead.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then I had what I can only regard as an inspiration.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No doubt they want his professional services, but, having used him, they may be inclined to punish him for what they will regard as his treachery.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This catastrophe I am inclined to regard as an unhappy accident, for I am convinced that the lady had no intention of inflicting so grievous an injury.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That a man whom he had come to regard as a machine for tying cravats and brewing chocolate should suddenly develop fiery human passions was indeed a prodigy.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Of their terrible chief few details came out during the proceedings, and if I have now been compelled to make a clear statement of his career it is due to those injudicious champions who have endeavoured to clear his memory by attacks upon him whom I shall ever regard as the best and the wisest man whom I have ever known.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)