term-v; 1 Senses

Sense Number 1: name formally or designate

Examples:
His death was termed suspicious.
Crowds hissed, newspapers termed him as mild mannered a man as ever
cut a throat.
The papers termed him Spring Heeled Jack.

Mappings:
VerbNet: dub-29.3
FrameNet: Labeling,Simple_naming
PropBank: term.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1