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heed

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
7
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/hiːd/

Definition of heed

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)Careful attention.
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)Careful attention.
    “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.”

verb

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

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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”).

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