digging up vs deed

digging up and deed both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
digging up	Yes	No	No	No
deed	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deed is a hypernym of digging up; that is, deed is a word with a broader meaning than digging up:

digging up: the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
deed: something that people do or cause to happen

Other hypernyms of digging up include act, human action, human activity.

digging up (noun)	deed (noun)
the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried	something that people do or cause to happen
	a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it