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give heed to (something)

To listen carefully or pay close attention; to give ample or due consideration. You'd best give heed to his advice, or you might end up suffering the mistakes he made in the past. Give heed to your mother, she knows what she's talking about. We're only trying to help you, son. Please give heed to our warnings.
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pay heed to (something)

To listen carefully or pay close attention; to give (something) ample or due consideration. You'd best pay heed to his advice, or you might end up suffering the mistakes he made in the past. Pay heed to your mother, she knows what she's talking about.
See also: heed, pay, to

take heed (of someone or something)

To pay close attention to and consider carefully (what someone or something indicates, advises, or instructs). Take heed—you're getting involved with very dangerous people. We should have taken heed of the warning signs. He didn't take heed of the doctors, and now he's struggling to survive.
See also: heed, someone, take
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pay heed to someone

to listen to and accommodate someone. You had better pay heed to your father! They are not paying heed to what I told them.
See also: heed, pay, to

take heed (of someone or something)

to be cautious with someone or something; to pay attention to someone or something. We will have to take heed of Wendy and see what she will do next. You will learn to take heed of these little signs that things are not going well.
See also: heed, take
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

give/pay ˈheed (to somebody/something)

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take ˈheed (of somebody/something)

(formal) pay careful attention to somebody/something: They gave little heed to the rumours. ♢ I paid no heed at the time but later I had cause to remember what he’d said.
See also: give, heed, pay
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The court then added that real-world experience does not support the presupposition that if a warning was given, plaintiffs would have heeded it, stating that "warnings are everywhere in the modern world and often go unread or, where read, ignored."
It is one thing to presume that a person would have heeded a warning had it been given; it is another to presume that the person would have heeded a better warning when, in fact, he paid no attention to the warning given, which if followed would have prevented his injuries.
Under New Jersey law, the manufacturer can rebut the heeding presumption in two alternative ways in workplace situations--by proving that had an adequate warning been provided, the employee would not have heeded it or, alternatively, proving that the employer would not have read and heeded by taking precautions for employee safety or ensuring that employees would have read the warnings.
If the warning is inadequate, whether the plaintiff would have read and heeded the warning is speculative.
Where warning is given, the seller may reasonably assume that it will be read and heeded; and a product bearing such a warning, which is safe for use if it is followed, is not in defective condition, nor is it unreasonably dangerous.
First, studies and real-world experience show that warnings go unread, making it pure conjecture that plaintiffs would have read and heeded warnings.
"If it is difficult for a plaintiff to adduce convincing evidence that she would have heeded a warning, it may be doubly difficult for a defendant to adduce convincing evidence that plaintiff would not." (61)
Guide to defeating the heeding presumption in failure-to-warn cases: Defense counsel must oppose the distortion of Comment j's language into a presumption that users would read and heed instructions
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