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DEEM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

Example:

I hold him personally responsible

Synonyms:

deem; hold; take for; view as

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "deem" is one way to...):

consider; reckon; regard; see; view (deem to be)

Verb group:

hold (assert or affirm)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Credits

 Context examples: 

Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves, which Louisa's illness must have so greatly shaken.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Their tendency is gross and illiberal; and if their construction could ever be deemed clever, time has long ago destroyed all its ingenuity.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Of the twenty-seven products analysed, twenty-two were deemed accurate and reliable.

(Numerous home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported, Wikinews)

Something (as drugs or alcoholic beverages) deemed harmful and usually subject to legal restriction.

(Illicit Substance, NCI Thesaurus)

"Lower losses are a great start, but it's important to remember that 33 percent is still much higher than beekeepers deem acceptable. There is still much work to do."

(Study Finds Mixed News About Bee Populations, VOA)

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Primary results from the Learning Early About Peanut Allergy (LEAP) trial, published in 2015, showed that introducing peanut products into the diets of infants deemed at high risk for peanut allergy led to an 81 percent relative reduction in subsequent development of the allergy compared to avoiding peanut altogether.

(Peanut allergy prevention strategy is nutritionally safe, NIH)

LEAP showed that regular peanut consumption begun in infancy and continued until 5 years of age led to an 81 percent reduction in development of peanut allergy in infants deemed at high risk because they already had severe eczema, egg allergy or both.

(Benefits of peanut allergy prevention strategy persist after one-year peanut avoidance, NIH)

Because of these trends, the study also evaluated the safety of taking 4,000 units of vitamin D daily — greater than the average daily recommended dose of 600-800 IUs a day, but within limits deemed appropriate for clinical research by the Institute of Medicine.

(Vitamin D does not prevent type 2 diabetes in people at high risk, National Institutes of Health)

No need, O Steerforth, to have said, when we last spoke together, in that hour which I so little deemed to be our parting-hour—no need to have said, “Think of me at my best!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)