Verb take to be has 1 sense
  1. think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be - look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"
    --1 is one way to think, believe, consider, conceive
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
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