DEEDED Synonyms: 43 Similar and Opposite Words

deeded

verb

past tense of deed

as in ceded

to give over the legal possession or ownership of the philanthropist unexpectedly deeded his entire fortune to the animal shelter

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Why Chelsea ceded so much possession to Brighton is more complex — and an issue that has percolated beneath the surface for most of the BlueCo era.

— Jon Mackenzie, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2026
Meanwhile, Apple has largely ceded the frontier AI model market to competitors such as Google and OpenAI, choosing for now to focus on delivering the new technology through its high-end hardware.

— Sebastian Herrera, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2026

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Instead, detectives say the group used falsified invoices and documents and transferred cash into personal bank accounts.

— Chelsea Jones, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Defense lawyers have argued that the CIA’s treatment of Mohammed undermined the voluntariness of his later statements to the FBI, even though those interrogations took place after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay.

— Rena Rowe, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of transferred

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More than a century after a rare painting, recently attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was bequeathed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in 1920, the painting, Portrait of an Old Man, will go on display on December 2, per reports.

— News Desk, Artforum, 21 Aug. 2026
Youthful ambition bequeathed them unpredictably shifting time signatures, a daunting nylon-string intro, some odd musical shifts during the guitar-solo section, and a long list of other complexities.

— Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of bequeathed

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The rule requires election officials to submit each mail voter’s name and address to a new USPS portal, along with unique Intelligent Mail barcodes assigned to the envelopes used to send and return that voter’s ballot.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
Such was the case for David Dastmalchian, who was filming 2021’s The Suicide Squad in Panama when the CDS assigned him a new feline companion.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Aug. 2026

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