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GIVE EAR
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Give heed (to)
Example:
They attended to everything he said
Synonyms:
advert; attend; give ear; hang; pay heed
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "give ear" is one way to...):
listen (hear with intention)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give ear"):
fixate (pay attention to exclusively and obsessively)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
