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Difference between Look to someone and Look up to someone

look to someone

1. choose or rely on a person for support, help, etc.:

  • He’s not the sort of man to whom one looks for reassurance.

2. pay attention to smb.; take care of a person:

  • There is much talk about how we ought to look to the children that need homes…

look up to someoneview a person with respect and admiration:

  • In all that concerns civilization, the Argentines look up to the French.