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Deliver   /dɪlˈɪvər/   Listen
Deliver

verb
(past & past part. delivered; pres. part. delivering)
1.
Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea).  Synonym: present.
2.
Bring to a destination, make a delivery.
3.
To surrender someone or something to another.  Synonyms: fork out, fork over, fork up, hand over, render, turn in.  "Render up the prisoners" , "Render the town to the enemy" , "Fork over the money"
4.
Free from harm or evil.  Synonym: rescue.
5.
Hand over to the authorities of another country.  Synonyms: deport, extradite.
6.
Pass down.  Synonyms: render, return.  "Deliver a judgment"
7.
Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.).
8.
Save from sins.  Synonyms: redeem, save.
9.
Carry out or perform.  Synonym: drive home.  "Deliver a blow" , "The boxer drove home a solid left"
10.
Relinquish possession or control over.  Synonyms: cede, give up, surrender.
11.
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball.  Synonym: pitch.
12.
Cause to be born.  Synonyms: bear, birth, give birth, have.



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"Deliver" Quotes from Famous Books



... ceremony, the lieutenant ordered Rais to read aloud the paper which he had been commissioned by Lord Exmouth to deliver ...
— The Pirate City - An Algerine Tale • R.M. Ballantyne
... took in the year 1394 his degree as bachelor of theology in that University of Prague upon the fortunes of which he was destined to exercise so lasting an influence; and four years later, in 1398, he began to deliver lectures there. Huss had early taken his degree in a school higher than any school of man's. He himself has told us how he was once careless and disobedient, how the word of the Cross had taken hold ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... on you with the utmost conviction. With you off our hands, we can act freely. We must deliver an attack to-night. God in Heaven, you cannot think that we would expose you to the perils ...
— The Stowaway Girl • Louis Tracy
... been qualified to weigh motives, the heart that brindle-roan steer would surely have burst at; the pure effrontery of the thing: not only must he yield his life and give his body for meat, that those yearning stomachs might be filled with his flesh; he must deliver that meat at the most convenient spot, as a butcher brings our chops to the kitchen door. For that purpose alone they were cunningly luring him closer and closer, that they need not carry the meat far when they had ...
— The Gringos • B. M. Bower
... vain-glory by thinking the bells were restored at his request, they sent, whilst he was chopining and plying the pot, for the mayor of the city, the rector of the faculty, and the vicar of the church, unto whom they resolved to deliver the bells before the sophister had propounded his commission. After that, in their hearing, he should pronounce his gallant oration, which was done; and they being come, the sophister was brought in full hall, and began ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais


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