regard

1. (transitive) To look at; to observe.Examples: "She regarded us warily."; "And They made the Moon, with his face wrinkled with many mountains and worn with a thousand valleys, to regard with pale eyes the games of the small gods, and to watch throughout the resting time of Māna-Yood-Sushāī; to watch, to regard all things, and be silent."Synonyms: looktransitive

2. (transitive) To consider, look upon (something) in a given way etc.Examples: "I always regarded tabloid journalism as a social evil."; "He regards honesty as a duty, but was regarded as (being) rather dangerous by the police."; "I regard such a way of life with distaste."Synonyms: deemtransitive

3. (transitive, archaic) To take notice of, pay attention to.Examples: "If much you note him / You ſhall offend him, and extend his Paſſion, / Feed, and regard him not."; "I should not, however, so much mind if this folly [of giving children poetic names] were comprised in that domain of cold gentility, to which affectation usually confines itself. One does not regard seeing Miss Arabella seated at the piano, or her little sister Leonora tottling across the carpet to show her new pink shoes. That is in the usual course of events."Synonyms: pay attentionarchaictransitive

4. (transitive) To face toward.Examples: "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."; "We pass’d by[…]that exceedingly beautifull scate of my Lord Pembroke, on yᵉ ascent of an hill, flank’d with wood, and reguarding the river ; and so at night to Cadenham, yᵉ mansion of Ed. Hungerford, Esq."transitive

5. (transitive) To have to do with, to concern.Examples: "That argument does not regard the question."; "My lords, the question thus proposed by your lordships to the Judges must be admitted by all persons to be a question of great importance, as it regards the administration of justice."transitive

6. (transitive, obsolete) To set store by (something), to hold (someone) in esteem; to consider to have value, to respect.Examples: "Ther was a Iudge in a certayne cite which feared not god nether regarded man."; "Suppoſe they be in number infinit, Yet being voyd of Martiall diſcipline, All running headlong after greedie ſpoiles: And more regarding gaine than victorie: […] Their careleſſe ſwords ſhal lanch their fellows throats And make vs triumph in their ouerthrow."obsoletetransitive

1. (Internet slang, euphemistic) Filter-avoidance spelling of retard.Interneteuphemistic