look on/upon sb/sth as sth
— phrasal verb with look uk/lʊk/us/lʊk/verb
C1 to consider or think of someone or something as something:
We looked on her as a daughter.
I've lived there so long I look on the town as my home.
More examples
- I had begun to look on the house as my own.
- I look on them as my own children.
- I look on it simply as a job that has to be done.
- I look on tax as a necessary evil.
- They look on single mothers as the curse of society.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- fertility
- foundation
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- run riot idiom
- suspicion
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