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PAY HEED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pay heed mean? 

PAY HEED (verb)
  The verb PAY HEED has 1 sense:

1. give heed (to)play

  Familiarity information: PAY HEED used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAY HEED (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Give heed (to)

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

advert; attend; give ear; hang; pay heed

Context example:

They attended to everything he said

Hypernyms (to "pay heed" is one way to...):

listen (hear with intention)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pay heed"):

fixate (pay attention to exclusively and obsessively)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


Martin nodded that he heard,—it was a habit of nature with him to pay heed to whoever talked to him,—and poured a cup of lukewarm coffee.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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