'Deliver' definitions:
Definition of 'deliver'
(from WordNet)
verb
Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students" [syn: deliver, present]
verb
Bring to a destination, make a delivery; "our local super market delivers"
verb
To surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money" [syn: hand over, fork over, fork out, fork up, turn in, deliver, render]
verb
Free from harm or evil [syn: rescue, deliver]
verb
Hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there" [syn: extradite, deliver, deport]
verb
verb
Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.); "The students delivered a cry of joy"
verb
verb
Carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; "The boxer drove home a solid left" [syn: deliver, drive home]
verb
Relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" [syn: surrender, cede, deliver, give up]
verb
Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball" [syn: deliver, pitch]
verb
Definition of 'Deliver'
From: GCIDE
- Deliver \De*liv"er\, a. [OF. delivre free, unfettered. See Deliver, v. t.] Free; nimble; sprightly; active. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Wonderly deliver and great of strength. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Deliver'
From: GCIDE
- Deliver \De*liv"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delivered; p. pr. & vb. n. Delivering.] [F. d['e]livrer, LL. deliberare to liberate, give over, fr. L. de + liberare to set free. See Liberate.]
- 1. To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death. [1913 Webster]
- He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. --Ezek. xxxiii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; -- often with up or over, to or into. [1913 Webster]
- Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand. --Gen. xl. 13. [1913 Webster]
- The constables have delivered her over. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart. [1913 Webster]
- Till he these words to him deliver might. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball. [1913 Webster]
- Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears. --Sidney. [1913 Webster]
- An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of. [1913 Webster]
- She was delivered safe and soon. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. --Peacham. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To discover; to show. [Poetic] [1913 Webster]
- I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To deliberate. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To admit; to allow to pass. [Obs.] --Bacon.
- Syn: To Deliver, Give Forth, Discharge, Liberate, Pronounce, Utter.
- Usage: Deliver denotes, literally, to set free. Hence the term is extensively applied to cases where a thing is made to pass from a confined state to one of greater freedom or openness. Hence it may, in certain connections, be used as synonymous with any or all of the above-mentioned words, as will be seen from the following examples: One who delivers a package gives it forth; one who delivers a cargo discharges it; one who delivers a captive liberates him; one who delivers a message or a discourse utters or pronounces it; when soldiers deliver their fire, they set it free or give it forth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'deliver'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abalienate,
- administer,
- affranchise,
- alien,
- alienate,
- amortize,
- announce,
- articulate,
- assign,
- barter,
- bear,
- bequeath,
- born,
- breathe,
- bring,
- bring forth,
- bring out,
- broach,
- broadcast,
- carry,
- carry over,
- cart,
- cast,
- cede,
- chime,
- chime in,
- chorus,
- circulate,
- cleanse,
- cleanse away,
- come across with,
- come out with,
- commit,
- communicate,
- confer,
- consign,
- convey,
- deal,
- declare,
- deed,
- deed over,
- deliver over,
- demise,
- deport,
- devolve upon,
- diffuse,
- direct,
- disburden,
- discharge,
- disclose,
- disencumber,
- disenthrall,
- dispatch,
- dispense,
- disseminate,
- distribute,
- emancipate,
- emit,
- enfeoff,
- enfranchise,
- enunciate,
- exchange,
- expel,
- export,
- express,
- extract,
- extradite,
- extricate,
- feed,
- find,
- fire,
- fling,
- fling off,
- fork over,
- formulate,
- forward,
- free,
- free from,
- give,
- give birth to,
- give expression,
- give in,
- give out,
- give out with,
- give over,
- give release,
- give respite,
- give title to,
- give tongue,
- give up,
- give utterance,
- give voice,
- hand,
- hand down,
- hand forward,
- hand in,
- hand on,
- hand out,
- hand over,
- hurl,
- impart,
- import,
- inflict,
- intermit,
- launch,
- let out,
- liberate,
- lip,
- make known,
- make over,
- manumit,
- metastasize,
- metathesize,
- negotiate,
- out with,
- pass,
- pass on,
- pass out,
- pass over,
- pass the buck,
- perform,
- perfuse,
- phonate,
- phrase,
- pitch,
- pour forth,
- present,
- proclaim,
- produce,
- promulgate,
- pronounce,
- provide,
- publish,
- purge,
- purge away,
- purvey,
- put forth,
- put in words,
- raise,
- ransom,
- reach,
- read,
- recover,
- redeem,
- relay,
- release,
- relinquish,
- remove,
- render,
- reprieve,
- rescue,
- resign,
- retrieve,
- salvage,
- save,
- say,
- sell,
- send,
- set at large,
- set at liberty,
- set forth,
- set free,
- settle,
- settle on,
- shoot,
- sign away,
- sign over,
- sound,
- spread,
- state,
- strike,
- supply,
- surrender,
- suspend,
- switch,
- tell,
- throw,
- throw off,
- trade,
- transfer,
- transfer property,
- transfuse,
- translate,
- translocate,
- transmit,
- transplace,
- transplant,
- transport,
- transpose,
- turn over,
- utter,
- vent,
- verbalize,
- vocalize,
- voice,
- whisper,
- word,
- yield