heed
verb/hiːd/
/hiːd/
(formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they heed | /hiːd/ /hiːd/ |
| he / she / it heeds | /hiːdz/ /hiːdz/ |
| past simple heeded | /ˈhiːdɪd/ /ˈhiːdɪd/ |
| past participle heeded | /ˈhiːdɪd/ /ˈhiːdɪd/ |
| -ing form heeding | /ˈhiːdɪŋ/ /ˈhiːdɪŋ/ |
- heed somebody/something to pay careful attention to somebody’s advice or warning synonym notice
- They failed to heed the lessons of history.
- If only they had heeded his warnings!
- Calls for more legislation to protect tenants were not heeded.
- He failed to heed our warnings.
- The government would do well to heed this advice.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryHeed is used with these nouns as the object:- advice
- call
- maxim
- …
Word OriginOld English hēdan, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoeden and German hüten.Want to learn more?
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