deem
/dim/ verb B2- To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account. · She deemed his efforts insufficient.
- To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.
Plural deem · He/she/it deems · Past deemed · Past participle deemed · -ing form deeming
Verb forms
- Base form
- deem
- He/she/it
- deems
- Past
- deemed
- Past participle
- deemed
- -ing form
- deeming
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Noirtier possessed this peculiarity, he never projected any Utopian schemes which could never be realized, but strove for possibilities, and he applied to the realization of these possibilities the terrible theories of The Mountain,—theories that never shrank from any means that were deemed necessary to bring about the desired result.”
who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”
“Now,” continued Villefort, “those to whom the guilt really belongs, by whom the crime was committed, on whose heads the justice of man may probably descend here, and the certain judgment of God hereafter, would rejoice in the opportunity thus afforded of bestowing such a peace-offering as Valentine on the son of him whose life they so ruthlessly destroyed.” Noirtier had succeeded in mastering his emotion more than could have been deemed possible with such an enfeebled and shattered frame.
But afterwards, finding her words were true, they wondered at her knowledge and deemed her to be the wisest of birds.
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