An action or act; something that is done.
The word 'deed' is correct and usable in written English. You can use the word 'deed' to refer to an action that someone has done. Example sentence: Despite his kind deed of donating money to the charity, the man wished to remain anonymous.
It is perhaps to stop such situations that Robin Williams, it was revealed last week, signed a deed to prevent his image, or any likeness of him, being used at least 25 years after his death.
Although the door to the embalming room always remained closed, my father often asked me to visit him there after the deed had been completed.
"The violent extremist makes the case that America is at war with Islam and Muslims, and we have to assert that this is not true; not just in word, but in deed," he said.
My silvicultural skills were severely challenged, but the deed was soon done.
"Do you think it's dodgy to do what's called in the trade a deed of variation, to leave your house to your children?
But that's in the past, so let's all bury the memory deep down and hide the pictures in a shoebox we keep locked in our desk drawer with the deed to that house we own in California.
But so it goes at the Mail, which has all but abandoned the word 'allegedly' in favour of putting quotation marks around a paraphrased description of the deed in question.
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