heed
/ˈhiːd/
Meaning
Careful attention.
To guard, protect.
Careful attention.
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
To pay attention, care.
Careful attention.
To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
To pay attention, care.
Examples
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.
Word Forms
heeds
heeding
heeded
Etymology
From Middle English heden, from Old English hēdan (“to heed, take care, observe, attend, guard, take charge, take possession, receive”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōdijan (“to heed, guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to heed, protect”). Cognate with West Frisian hoedje (“to heed”), Dutch hoeden (“to heed”), German hüten (“to heed”).