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beholds

VERB

regard; look at

Synonyms

STRONG

catch consider contemplate descry discern distinguish earmark eye eyeball flash note notice observe perceive regard scan see spot spy survey view watch witness

WEAK

feast one's eyes lay eyes on

Antonyms

STRONG

disbelieve discard disregard forget ignore look away miss misunderstand neglect overlook

Example Sentences

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“For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds / Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This experience is reciprocal: the religious believer beholds the deity and is beheld by the deity in turn.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

“Whenever there is no desire, one beholds the mystery,” Lao Tzu wrote.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2020

Two-thirds into “Drifts” the narrator realizes she is pregnant, and as she beholds her “exquisitely tender and changing body” her diction stoops slightly into the hackneyed.

From New York Times • May 19, 2020

But he beholds the consequences wherever he turns his eye, and he feels them—deeply feels them in every throb of his heart.

From Norman's New Orleans and Environs Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Norman, B. M.