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heed

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"Pay close attention to"

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4 lettersPronunciation /ˈhiːd/Part of speech verb, nounSorted deehStarts with HEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. pay close attention to; give heed to

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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."

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