Synonyms for deed
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : deed |
| Phonetic Transcription : did |
Top 10 synonyms for deed Other synonyms for the word deed
- agreement
- ballgame
- bargain
- big idea
- bit
- byplay
- cause
- charter
- commission
- compact
- conveyance
- covenant
- crusade
- do
- enterprise
- exploit
- follow through
- game
- happenin'
- indenture
- instrument
- papers
- performance
- plan
- proof
- quest
- record
- release
- securing
- security
- stunt
- thing
- title
- tour de force
- transaction
- truth
- voucher
- warranty
- winning
Définition of deed
Origin :- Old English dæd "a doing, act, action, transaction, event," from Proto-Germanic *dædis (cf. Old Saxon dad, Old Norse dað, Old Frisian dede, Middle Dutch daet, Dutch daad, Old High German tat, German Tat "deed," Gothic gadeþs "a putting, placing"), from PIE *dhetis (cf. Lithuanian detis "load, burden," Greek thesis "a placing, setting"), from *dhe- "place, put" (see do). Sense of "written legal document" is early 14c. As a verb, 1806, American English Related: Deeded; deeding.
- noun achievement
- noun legal paper assigning property; contract
- It does not often fall to the lot of a boy to perform a deed so heroic.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- His forte was not in public speaking, but he hoped they would take the will for the deed.
- Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
- But I was proposing--I wanted to deed that piece of marsh to you boys!
- Extract from : « The Raid From Beausejour; And How The Carter Boys Lifted The Mortgage » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- In all this he has been upright, disinterested and conscientious in word and deed.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- They knew not what deed it was that they deemed themselves resolved to do.
- Extract from : « Fancy's Show-Box (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Was not the deed perpetrated as an example and warning for himself?
- Extract from : « A Theological-Political Treatise [Part IV] » by Benedict of Spinoza
- They had done a deed of history, and were anxious to add new ones to the record.
- Extract from : « Old News » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Some already wished that the altar-smoke could cover the deed from the sight of Heaven.
- Extract from : « A Bell's Biography » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Still, the fruits of that deed were the deliverance of Scotland.
- Extract from : « Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II » by Charlotte Mary Yonge
- The usual sequence to Simba's deed would have been an immediately defunct Simba.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
Antonyms for deed
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