regarding

Verb

regard (third-person singular simple present regards, present participle regarding, simple past and past participle regarded)

1. (transitive) To look at; to observe.
   • She regarded us warily.

   Synonyms:

   behold, clock, look, geek, kool, squizz, take a butcher's, take a dekko, take a gander, vada

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.
   • I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil.

   Synonyms:

   esteem, hold, account, appraise, count, see, censure, consider, deem, dub

3. (archaic, transitive) To take notice of, pay attention to.
   • If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

   Synonyms:

   clock, give heed, attend, consider, heed, let in on, mark, mind, notice, pass

   Antonyms:

   ignore, neglect, brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, misheed, misregard, pass

4. (transitive) To face toward.
   • Seated on a peninſula which regardeth the maine land ; ſtrong by nature, and fortified by Art : adorned heretofore with magnificent buildings ; and numbered amongſt the paradiſes of the earth, for temperate aire, and delightfull ſituation.1615, George Sandys, A Relation of a Iourney begun An. Dom. 1610, London: Andrew Crooke, published 1637, page 16

   Synonyms:

   face, respect

5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.
   • That argument does not regard the question.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.
   • Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke xviij:[2]

   Synonyms:

   honor, look up to, esteem, idolize, lay store by, prize, hallow, put store by, put store in, rate

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