All 6 Uses
heed
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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- I STRODE through the undergrowth that clothed the ridge behind the house, scarcely heeding whither I went; passed on through the shadow of a thick cluster of straight-stemmed trees beyond it, and so presently found myself some way on the other side of the ridge, and descending towards a streamlet that ran through a narrow valley.†
Chpt 9heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- They were talking, or at least one of the men was talking to the other two, and all three had been too closely interested to heed the rustling of my approach.†
Chpt 9 *heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- I have gone on, not heeding anything but the question I was pursuing; and the material has—dripped into the huts yonder.†
Chpt 14heeding = paying close attention to; or doing what is suggested
- But I did not heed these.†
Chpt 19heed = pay close attention to; or do what is suggested
- "Walk by me," said I, nerving myself; and side by side we walked down the narrow way, taking little heed of the dim Things that peered at us out of the huts.†
Chpt 21
- I would go out into the streets to fight with my delusion, and prowling women would mew after me; furtive, craving men glance jealously at me; weary, pale workers go coughing by me with tired eyes and eager paces, like wounded deer dripping blood; old people, bent and dull, pass murmuring to themselves; and, all unheeding, a ragged tail of gibing children.†
Chpt 22unheeding = ignoringstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unheeding means not and reverses the meaning of heeding. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
Definitions:
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(1)
(heed) pay close attention to; or to do what is suggested -- especially with regard to a warning or other advice
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)