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Verb: look on
  1. Observe without intervening
    "They looked on as the murderer was executed";
    - watch
     
  2. View, consider, or classify someone or something in a particular way
    "she looked on this affair as a joke";
    - think of, repute, know as, be known as, regard as, look upon, take to be

Derived forms: looks on, looking on, looked on

See also: deem [formal], esteem [formal], hold, take for, view as

Type of: believe, conceive, consider, mention, note, observe, remark, think