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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
  • Has she signed the deed yet?
    deed = a legal document transferring ownership of property
  • In fact, ma'am, the way the law reads, whoever comes along and pays off them back taxes owns the land even if they don't got no deed.   (source)
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
  • These consisted of stock certificates, deeds of trust, and promissory notes.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • Deeds, wills.   (source)
  • 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
  • It's even been deeded over to him.   (source)
    deeded = legally transferred
  • 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
  • Land-lust, which had been expressed by constant bickering over boundaries and deeds, could now be elevated to the arena of morality; one could cry witch against one's neighbor and feel perfectly justified in the bargain.   (source)
  • 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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  • The title-deeds, which were in his own possession, were owned by the pigs jointly.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • When I came in he cleared the books and papers from the table, and with him I went into plans and deeds and figures of all sorts.   (source)
  • All of our property is free from mortgage, and is deeded to an undenominational board of trustees who have the control of the institution.   (source)
    deeded = legally transferred
  • It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • It was originally deeded as "Good Luck," but never quite lived up to the name.†   (source)
  • He owned the eighty acres that was deeded by his wife to Cleon Hubbard, father of Seth.†   (source)
  • "He has deeded me the house," said Miss Love.†   (source)
  • All three young negroes were deeded over into your grandmother's name and the two girls worked around the house and lived there, as did Artiste who, however, was mainly hired out around the town to do chores for other families.†   (source)
  • He filed on this land, and he deeded it to his boss.†   (source)
  • By how much the good of what they did and deeded to us was cherished, nurtured and encouraged, by so much did the country and all of us gain.†   (source)
  • 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
  • PROCTOR: Mr. Parris, you are the first minister ever did demand the deed to this house—   (source)
  • But to ask ownership is like you shall own the meeting house itself; the last meeting I were at you spoke so long on deeds and mortgages I thought it were an auction.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • Over the years, searching for clues of Ma's whereabouts, she'd read every scrap of paper in the shack and had never seen anything like a deed.   (source)
    deed = legal document indicating ownership of property
  • Tucked in the bottom was the deed for the property, which Kya had put in a conservation easement, protecting it from development.   (source)
  • Kya walked out of the courthouse with a full deed in her name for three hundred ten acres of lush lagoons, sparkling marsh, oak forests, and a long private beach on the North Carolina coastline.   (source)
  • Frederick, it was said, intended to bring against them twenty men all armed with guns, and he had already bribed the magistrates and police, so that if he could once get hold of the title-deeds of Animal Farm they would ask no questions.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • Of them he will have deeds of purchase, keys and other things.   (source)
  • 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
  • There were title deeds of the Piccadilly house in a great bundle, deeds of the purchase of the houses at Mile End and Bermondsey, notepaper, envelopes, and pens and ink.   (source)
    deeds = legal documents indicating ownership of property
  • As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match.   (source)
  • It was too bad she hadn't made it clear that day at the store that Grandpa deeded her the furniture, too.†   (source)
  • First the document reminded us that the old Toy house and furnishings had been deeded over "to my beloved wife, Love Simpson Blakeslee" at the time of their marriage.†   (source)
  • Remembering how Mama had laid on her bed crying just two days ago, so scared Miss Love would get willed the store, I wondered if she could stand it when she found out Pa's house was already deeded over.†   (source)
  • have simply deserted her, could have taken his hat and walked out, but he did not and that he had what Grandfather would have to admit was a good and valid claim, if not to the whole place which he alone had saved, as well as the lives of all the white people on it, at least to that portion of it which had been specifically described and deeded to him in the marriage settlement which he had entered in good faith, with no reservations as to his obscure origin and material equipment, while there had been not only reservation but actual misrepresentation on their part and misrepresentation of such a crass nature as to have not only voided and frustrated without his knowing it the centra†   (source)
  • He did, in fact, die from the operation, but not before he had deeded Tiny Soderball his claim on Hunker Creek.†   (source)
  • 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)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in undeeded means not and reverses the meaning of deeded. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • So, Lallybroch—that's what the folk that live there call it—was deeded to my father, but there was a clause in the deed stating that the land was to pass to my mother, Ellen's, issue only.†   (source)
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deed as in:  did a good deed

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  • It is my good deed for the day.
  • Never underrate the heart,
    Capable of deeds
    The mind cannot conceive.
    The heart dictates as well as feels.   (source)
    deeds = notable achievements
  • Dark deeds are planned in this place, but Harry Potter must not be here when they happen — go home, Harry Potter, go home.   (source)
  • Shall we do the deed?   (source)
    deed = notable task
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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)
  • No longer content to read about the brave deeds of others, he had forged himself a helmet and mounted a nag.†   (source)
  • That's why your deeds are like your monuments.†   (source)
  • That's also why we rarely say thank you, manana, because we believe a Pashtun will never forget a good deed and is bound to reciprocate at some point, just as he will a bad one.†   (source)
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  • Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap by AC/DC began to blast out of the robot's internal and external speakers, so loud it made my chair vibrate.†   (source)
  • Who can say what goes through the mind of a clapper in the moments before carrying out that evil deed?†   (source)
  • The toxin does the deed insidiously, indirectly, by inhibiting an enzyme essential to glycoprotein metabolism.†   (source)
  • And your own words, and your own thoughts, and your own deeds, are going to condemn you as you stand before God on that day.†   (source)
  • She was pure of heart and deed; she only kicked shins in self-defense, so that couldn't count against her.†   (source)
  • It was Reenie who'd done the bandaging, of scrapes and cuts and minor injuries: Mother might be resting, or doing good deeds elsewhere, but Reenie was always there.†   (source)
  • Their birth certificates were in there, along with a marriage certificate and the deed and history of ownership of their land.†   (source)
  • During that era, my deeds would certainly have implicated my husband if revealed, regardless of whether he had anything to do with them.†   (source)
  • Not simply the matchbooks, candy wrappers, and ticket stubs, mind you; but the newspapers, journals, and pamphlets; the catechisms and hymnals, histories and memoirs; the contracts, deeds, and titles; the treaties and constitutions and all Ten Commandments.†   (source)
  • But he did apologize with deeds: The rare times when he lost his temper with me were always followed with a new toy or a trip to the ice cream parlor.†   (source)
  • It's not a question of doing great deeds, but of being selfless in the small things.†   (source)
  • Despite attending a nominally Christian school, I had not yet been inside a church—and I wasn't about to dare the deed now.†   (source)
  • This is sawab, a good deed.†   (source)
  • I came trekking down from the bus stop to find my grandfather doing my good deed.†   (source)
  • The men in black suits sat around their tables while up on a platform one of their number, a wide, cheery man dressed in a morning suit, as if he had just come from a wedding, was announcing Good Deeds Done.†   (source)
  • Joe had defaulted on his construction loan and had never bothered to transfer the deeds to the new owners.†   (source)
  • He was highly capable of such a deed.†   (source)
  • Mr. Jimmy said, "Uh-huh, and on trombone we have Chug 'Doo-Doo Bug' Cross, and the palest member of the band, on piano, is Roy 'Dirty Deed' Breed."†   (source)
  • I figured I'd done enough good deeds for one day, and hung up.†   (source)
  • The local sagamore's name was Watahantowet; instead of his signature, he made his mark upon the deed in the form of his totem—an armless man.†   (source)
  • Was it not at the brothers' direction that Maniac Magee performed these deeds?†   (source)
  • And if it were an indication of some fell deed or prophecy, he'd have the girl hanging by nightfall.†   (source)
  • Younger men, most had done no great deeds as yet, but Sansa and Jeyne agreed that one day the Seven Kingdoms would resound to the sound of their names.†   (source)
  • Lying to the world about a deed so traitorous at its core that the camerlegno doubted even God could forgive it.†   (source)
  • But he will never reach me, not before the deed is done.†   (source)
  • Nor did Jamie limit her good deeds to people.†   (source)
  • But we're not in the business of doing good deeds.†   (source)
  • Oh, the seat I could let you have for five great deeds.†   (source)
  • The Marthas tackle projects and perform good deeds.†   (source)
  • He had risked too much in the hopes that he might do something to match the deeds of his brother Mohammed.†   (source)
  • Impure thoughts, impure words, impure deeds, sir.†   (source)
  • You have performed your evil deeds for the last time, Olaf.†   (source)
  • I felt a flood of relief too, that the deed was done, thank God, and didn't need to be done again.†   (source)
  • Then I put the stuff een the gel and the conditioner, and then I deed the same thing een Jeff and Longwell's room.†   (source)
  • They didn't study his good deeds.†   (source)
  • He probably knew about more cruel and evil deeds she'd committed than Cinder did, and none of it made a difference.†   (source)
  • And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before—and thus was the Empire forged.†   (source)
  • After all the brave deeds he had dreamed of to win this boy's respect, he had gained it at last just by doing nothing, just by staying here and refusing to leave.†   (source)
  • Montag saw the flirt of a great metal fist over the far city and he knew the scream of the jets that would follow, would say, after the deed, disintegrate, leave no stone on another, perish.†   (source)
  • Normally the actions and deeds of a man were all that society felt comfortable in judging.†   (source)
  • Because, what I am trying to say — what I was thinking in the car from Antwerp last night—good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it?†   (source)
  • Then there're Theseus, Oedipus, Peleus, Orpheus, Jason and Hercules all waiting to be untangled, since their various deeds are running crisscross through my mind like multicolored threads in a dress.†   (source)
  • So he has to be aggressive: he has to make it clear, through his words and deeds, that he is not weak.†   (source)
  • It follows that any deviance from her mission, in either motive or deed, will be viewed as a break in this agreement.†   (source)
  • After a few days of spinning tales, John's involvement disappeared, as I found myself stating that I would be the person who would do the deed.†   (source)
  • You've done your good deed for the year.†   (source)
  • He had chased the Ra'zac for so many weeks that the pain of their murderous deed had dulled within him.†   (source)
  • They wanted good intentions and good deeds.†   (source)
  • Every cruel deed with which he had ever credited Basta was probably going through his head.†   (source)
  • " 'Do not call on Tehlu save in the greatest need, for Tehlu judges every thought and deed,' " he recited.†   (source)
  • Get my deed and walk on out.†   (source)
  • The armed fighting in the Warsaw ghetto and thousands of brave deeds performed by Jewish partisans show that it was a very capable resistance too.†   (source)
  • Every week his picture was in the papers next to Monsignor Pittini, overseeing some good deed.†   (source)
  • It said that on the deeds and you can look them up.†   (source)
  • Soon the deed is done and he lies spent beside her, at which point the narrator points out that "precisely ninety seconds" have elapsed since he walked from her to look into the bedroom.†   (source)
  • Meaningless, unless they impel you to one choice or another, some deed or course of action, however insignificant.†   (source)
  • In the summer of 1888 he bought the land and, thinking ahead, registered the deed under a false name, H. S. Campbell.†   (source)
  • I'm sure he expected me to grow up as a nice church lady with cute little hats, organizing good deeds.†   (source)
  • She swore me to absolute silence, saying above all else those men must not connect us with their ugly deed.†   (source)
  • Plato's first deed as a philosopher was to publish Socrate' Apology, an account of his plea to the large jury.†   (source)
  • The other brothers, Albert and Benjamin, led more private lives and left behind little history aside from their wills and land deeds.†   (source)
  • If he were not picking the pocket of a dead man in an alley, he was at the greatest gambling tables in the richest salons of the city, using his vampire keenness to suck gold and dollars and deeds of property from young planters' sons who found him deceptive in his friendship and alluring in his charm.†   (source)
  • Marko almost believed that the Party could do a good deed—that he himself had done his first manly good deed.†   (source)
  • I remembered na-na's kind face, her toothless smile, the way she would hobble around on her bound feet and the sweet, kind deeds she did.†   (source)
  • He crumpled to the floor, moaning that he was the guilty one because of his ambition and bluster, that no one had told him to get involved in politics, that he had been much better off as an ordinary lawyer and family man, and that from then on he was renouncing his accursed candidacy, resigning from the Liberal Party and from all his public deeds and works, and that he hoped none of his descendants would ever get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits—till finally Dr. Cuevas took pity on him and did him the favor of getting him drunk.†   (source)
  • In the worst of conditions, the legacy of my teammates steadies my resolve and silently guides my every deed.†   (source)
  • The assassin, a man named Rachidi Minzele, was immediately shot and killed, taking with him the only definitive knowledge about the motives behind his deed, which spawned a confounding web of conspiracy theories.†   (source)
  • This was the assassin's first chance to describe his deed, and the actor in him probably made the most of the dramatic story.†   (source)
  • She has been tormented for forty years and shouldn't have to suffer any more for the deeds that her brother and her father committed.†   (source)
  • I know you men, I know you, Blas Montano, Manuelito, and you Cruz Sedillo—and I know you are not men who need the cover of darkness to hide your deeds!†   (source)
  • She remembered the stories she'd heard on the boat about girls captured and sold into white slavery, girls used by horrible men for horrible deeds.†   (source)
  • Ursula would weep at the table as if she were reading the letters that had never arrived and in which Jose Arcadio told about his deeds and misadventures.†   (source)
  • But I must stand before that black Baron with his deed accomplished, and take my one chance to strike him where he is weakest—in his gloating moment!†   (source)
  • With this method, LuLing never forgot a thing, especially lies, betrayals, and all the bad deeds Ruth had done since she was born.†   (source)
  • He practically had you and Patch on top of your lab table, horizontal, minus your clothes, doing the Big Deed—" I nailed her with a look that said, Does it look like I want a replay?†   (source)
  • "So you have the opportunity both to do a good deed and get something in return," he continues.†   (source)
  • But he didn't know that Doro, in what she called a joyful liberation from the past, had given Caroline the deed to this old house.†   (source)
  • I tell my students if they want to bring technology into it, they have to take this into account, this tendency toward grandiose deeds, toward pursuing a dream.†   (source)
  • Okay, so maybe lying isn't 100 percent kosher on the Good Deeds Scale (especially lying to your best friends), but it's for a very, very good cause.†   (source)
  • Now, from the fatuous vantage of her office in exile, Annie reflected on such deeds and on the losses within her that had prompted them.†   (source)
  • To truly live one's faith, in word and deed, is a mighty, and a daily, struggle; and Adam embraced that struggle and devoted himself to it.†   (source)
  • I have sinned in thought and deed.†   (source)
  • It's a story in a part of the encyclopedia called "The Book of Golden Deeds," which is filled with tales of martyrs and brave children and people going through torment and terror.†   (source)
  • This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds-the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions...the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds.†   (source)
  • When critics complained that it was a medieval punishment, Ehlers responded tersely: "A medieval device for a medieval deed.†   (source)
  • The women were aware that, although they had been left behind to fend for themselves, The People had done them a good deed by leaving them with all their possessions.†   (source)
  • In those days, I fully believed that the salvation of the world depended on every one of my deeds, on every one of my prayers.†   (source)
  • a classic country lawyer more happily at home with land deeds than ill deeds, opened the cross-examination.†   (source)
  • It was how things happened in his world, where he was a friendly guy and worried so you didn't have to as he went about living his life of helpful errands and good deeds.†   (source)
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