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deed as in:  signed the deed

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    We can't find the deed, but a copy is recorded with the county.
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
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    Has she signed the deed yet?
    deed = a legal document transferring ownership of property
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    I, Samuel W. Westing, otherwise known as Sandy McSouthers and others, do hereby give and bequeath all the property and possessions in my name as follows: To all of you, in equal shares, the deed to Sunset Towers;  (source)
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
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    It's even been deeded over to him.  (source)
    deeded = legally transferred
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    These consisted of stock certificates, deeds of trust, and promissory notes.  (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
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    The clerk checked the reference number and searched for the deed in an old wooden filing cabinet.  (source)
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
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    I could just see it, right on the back page under the obituaries and deed-of-trust announcements.  (source)
    deed-of-trust = a document that transfers legal title of property to a trustee
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    It was originally deeded as "Good Luck," but never quite lived up to the name.†  (source)
    deeded = legally transferred ownership of property
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    Deeds, wills.  (source)
    Deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
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    PROCTOR: Mr. Parris, you are the first minister ever did demand the deed to this house—  (source)
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
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    He owned the eighty acres that was deeded by his wife to Cleon Hubbard, father of Seth.†  (source)
    deeded = legally transferred ownership of property
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    During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening.  (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
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    At the end of three months enough was secured to repay the loan of two hundred and fifty dollars to General Marshall, and within two months more we had secured the entire five hundred dollars and had received a deed of the one hundred acres of land.  (source)
    deed = legal document recognizing ownership
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deed as in:  did a good deed

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Scaling the sheer face of El Capitan without any ropes was a daring deed that cemented her reputation as one of the world's most skilled climbers.
deed = notable achievement
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    It is my good deed for the day.
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    Shall we do the deed?  (source)
    deed = notable task
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    Now, you boys gotta do a good deed, make up fer this.  (source)
    deed = notable achievement
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    Dark deeds are planned in this place, but Harry Potter must not be here when they happen — go home, Harry Potter, go home.  (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
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    I have been told that dwarves are sometimes politer in word than in deed.  (source)
    deed = action
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    I cannot strike at wretched kerns, whose arms Are hired to bear their staves; either thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword, with an unbattered edge, I sheathe again undeeded.  (source)
    undeeded = having taken no action
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    So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops.  (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
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    The girls in books lose their hair in fevers or sell it to get money for some good deed, and I'm sure I wouldn't mind losing my hair in some such fashion half so much.  (source)
    deed = notable task
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    Here we sit in a branchy row, Thinking of beautiful things we know; Dreaming of deeds that we mean to do, All complete, in a minute or two-- Something noble and wise and good, Done by merely wishing we could.  (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
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    The culprit is far too cunning to be apprehended for this dastardly deed.†  (source)
    deed = notable achievement
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    That's why your deeds are like your monuments.†  (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
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    The first good deed in your dissolute life.†  (source)
    deed = notable achievement
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    It's not a question of doing great deeds, but of being selfless in the small things.†  (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
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