mind
Few appeared to heed his call for calm.
Washingtonians apparently heeded pleas to use public transportation instead of cars.
I have been unable to find out whether or not his wishes in this matter were heeded .

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Paying attention and being careful
attention span
attentiveness
baby
be good, and if you can't be good, be carefulidiom
be on (your) guardidiom
egg
flow
follow/steer/take the middle course/way/pathidiom
get religionidiom
guard
hang
hang on/upon something
religion
revolve
revolve around someone/something
safety
safety firstidiom
see past something
sit
the/a glare of somethingidiom

heed | American Dictionary

heed
verb[ T ]
us/hid/
to listen to and follow advice:
The airline failed to heed warnings about security.
heed
noun[ U ]
us/hid/
attention or notice:
Voters are dissatisfied, and Congress should take heed (= consider this).

Examples of heed

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Senators came to expect that their objections to nominees recorded via the blue slip would be heeded by their chamber colleagues.
Such calls have been heeded and indeed there has been a flood of small area studies.
No one heeds the youth with the martyr's palm held aloft.
However, certain caveats must be heeded in interpreting these findings.
We cannot make sense of ourselves and the world without also heeding the command of respect.
His call for the promotion of international-civilizational morality covering human rights and democracy ought to be heeded.
Only then can a persuasive case be made for heeding their advice over that of others.
They occur very quickly, so much so that intermediate products of processing are not heeded in short-term memory and, thus, not available for self-report.
If such a distinction is considered too harsh, there is no remedy but to describe as precisely as possible the constituent parts, heeding the genealogy of the conceptual domain involved.
The team decided that we risked not being able to offer the programme at all unless we heeded the wishes of a substantial portion of the community.
The suggestion, however, was not heeded.
Is it true that in ever y legal system, ever yone's preference for heeding some set of authorities would change if it were supposed that almost ever yone acted differently?
The obvious advantage of this approach is that the information it provides is more likely to be heeded by teachers because it addresses issues they themselves have identified as important.
All government officials are constantly reminded that ptnghuà should be used for all high-profile public events, although there is anecdotal evidence suggesting that this reminder is not always heeded.
I am pleased to note that my request for greater flexibility within the second pillar was also heeded.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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