deed
noun
something that is done, performed, or accomplished; an act.
had deeded
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past perfectof deed.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Tubman, who had purchased 25 acres in addition to the original seven, had deeded her property to the church when she fell behind on payments.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2022
For two months in the summer of 1996, Farmer stayed in a country house that Wexner had deeded to Epstein four years earlier, according to property records.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2019
Vicente and Domingo Peralta, meanwhile, had been left with only a few hundred of the roughly 9,400 acres their father had deeded each of them.
From Slate ● Feb. 9, 2015
A Boston philanthropist had deeded to Hampton Institute a former plantation named Shellbanks Farm, which served as an agricultural laboratory for Negro and Indian students at the school.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
The French had deeded away the Indian lands to the English!
From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
