Noun

(en noun)

An action or act; something that is done.

* Bible, Genesis xliv. 15

And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done?

A brave or noteworthy action; a feat or exploit.

* Spenser

knightly deeds

* Dryden

whose deeds some nobler poem shall adorn

Action or fact, as opposed to rhetoric or deliberation.

I have fulfilled my promise in word and in deed .

(legal) A legal contract showing bond.

I inherited the deed to the house.

Noun

(label) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder . It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}

* 1984 , Humphrey Carpenter, Mari Prichard, The Oxford companion to children's literature , page 275:

It may be guessed, indeed, that this was the original form of the story, the fairy being the addition of those who considered Jack's thefts from (and murder of) the giant to be scarcely justified without her.

* 2003 , Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion (ISBN 0743417518), page 131:

Captain Sulu, who served under the legendary James T. Kirk for many years, disobeys Starfleet orders in order to try and help Kirk and another old shipmate, Dr. McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.

* 2011 , Carlene Brennen, Hemingway's Cats (ISBN 1561644897), page 161:

Dr. Herrera also knew Hemingway had held Batista's army personally responsible for the brutal murders of his dogs, Blackie (Black Dog) and Machakos.

(label) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.

* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, author=Ed Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian

, title= Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , passage=Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Old soldiers? , passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.

The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.

Something terrible to endure.

(label) A group of crows;

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* {{quote-book, 2001, (Daniel Handler), The Vile Village, isbn=0064408655, page=76

, passage=Without the murder of crows roosting in its branches, Nevermore Tree looked as bare as a skeleton.}}