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Belly  +  435967 Sun, 28 Oct 07 02:01 PM

What are the differences between "eye" and "regard" when they are used as verbs to mean "look at sb carefully in a particular way"?
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Marius Hancu  +  435970 Sun, 28 Oct 07 02:09 PM
IMO:

to eye: more popular
to regard: more formal/"sophisticated" (a Frenchism, to some extent)
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