Heed

/hiːd/ · noun

Meaning

Careful attention..

Definitions by Sense

1. Careful attention.
2. (obsolete) To guard, protect.
3. (transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
4. (intransitive, archaic) To pay attention, care.

Example Sentences

Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

With pleasure Argus the musician heeds.

"It comes back to me that I wanted to say something to the driver and that I couldn't make him heed me."

The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.

Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.

Barker's proposal to try out new equipment before mass introduction should also have been heeded, because traction components bought without trialling for the Glasgow and Great Eastern schemes gave trouble.

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