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[ verb ] give heed (to)

Examples

"The children in the audience attended the recital quietly" "She hung on his every word" "They paid attention to everything he said"

Used in print

(Ernest Becker, Zen: A Rational Critique. New York: W.W....)

His power was so great that he even promoted and demoted gods according to whether they had given_ear or been deaf_to petitions .

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