Meaning

5 senses
  1. (ditransitive)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.

    halten, erachten

    полага́тьpolagátʹ, счита́тьsčitátʹ, ду́матьdúmatʹ

  2. (ambitransitive)To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

    erachten, ansehen

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To adjudge, to decree.

  5. (obsolete, transitive)To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

More definitions
  • keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view

Examples

46 sentences
  1. They refused to countenance any suggestion of a power-sharing agreement with a man they deemed a radical.

    Вони відмовилися підтримати будь-яку пропозицію про угоду про розподіл влади з чоловіком, якого вони вважали радикалом.

    ruОни отказались рассматривать любые предложения о соглашении по разделению власти с человеком, которого они считали радикалом.

    deSie lehnten jeden Versuch ab, eine Vereinbarung über die Teilung der Macht mit einem Mann zu schließen, den sie für radikal hielten.

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  2. I deem him capable of anything.

    deMeines Erachtens ist er zu allem fähig.

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  3. My sister deems your efforts futile.

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  4. We deemed what belongs to us valueless.

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  5. He deemed it wise to accept the offer.

    ruОн посчитал правильным принять это предложение.

    deEs dünkte ihn klug, das Angebot anzunehmen.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
to hold in belief or estimation:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to hold in belief or estimation:
to have or hold as an opinion:

Origin

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sente

From Middle English dēmen (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English dēman (“to decide, decree, deem”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōmijan, from Proto-Germanic *dōmijaną (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to set, put”).

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Forms

deems, deeming, deemed, deemed
Base formdeem · to deem
3rd person singulardeems
Present participledeeming
Past simpledeemed
Past participledeemed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydeem
he, she, itdeems

Past simpleLesson

all personsdeemed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave deemed
he, she, ithas deemed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill deem

Synonyms

33 synonyms

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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