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pay heed

vb. To heed; to give attention.

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pay heed

v. give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said" [syn: attend, hang, advert, give ear]

Usage examples of "pay heed".

To avoid minor confusion, the reader is cautioned to pay heed to the dates denoting the time frame of each chapter.

As Blessed Elua is my witness, I tried to pay heed to what passed about me and what conversations I overheard, but the slender velvet rope Melisande Shahrizai had set about my neck had severed at last my connection with that far part of my mind that was ever thinking and analyzing at Anafiel Delaunay's behest, and I was aware only of her hand on the far end of it.

Her voice became as the voice of an insect buzzing, nothing to pay heed to, and Dalamar walked past her through the kitchen and into the oven room where the scent of years of baking clung to the walls with stubborn, yeasty persistence.

I am convinced that if the Companion would but pay heed to me, she would see that Davad was no traitor.

He forgot to pay heed, fixed as he was on the movement that erupted among his soldiers.

He forgot to pay heed, fixed ashe was on the movement that erupted among his soldiers.

Then I had to pay heed to the way, for huge ivy-covered trees spread roots like traps, angled their low limbs cunĀ­.