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Deliver

verb

(past & past part. delivered; pres. part. delivering)

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea). Synonym: present.

Bring to a destination, make a delivery.

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"

Free from harm or evil. Synonym: rescue.

Hand over to the authorities of another country. Synonyms: deport, extradite.

Pass down. Synonyms: render, return. "Deliver a judgment"

Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.).

Save from sins. Synonyms: redeem, save.

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

... him. Immediately an enormous and frightful genie rose out of the earth, saying: "What wouldst thou with me? I am the Slave of the Ring, and will obey thee in all things." Aladdin fearlessly replied: "Deliver me from this place!" whereupon the earth opened, and he found himself outside. As soon as his eyes could bear the light he went home, but fainted on the threshold. When he came to himself he told his mother ...

— The Blue Fairy Book • Various

... what we must do about it," said Kilian, as we sat around the breakfast-table. "If you are still in a humor for the dance to-night, I will order Tom and Jerry to be brought up at once, and Miss Pauline and I will go out and deliver all ...

— Richard Vandermarck • Miriam Coles Harris

... far down the track which soon waxed into the headlight of the approaching train. It came on with an increasing roar; the engine bore down upon the ambushing desperadoes with a glare and a shriek like some avenging monster come to deliver them to justice. Black Eagle flattened himself upon the ground. The engine, contrary to their calculations, instead of stopping between him and Bud King's place of concealment, passed fully forty yards farther before it ...

— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry

... Battle: Daun's last battle; and, what is more to the joy of readers and their Editor here, was Friedrich's last,—so that the remaining Two Campaigns may fairly be condensed to an extreme degree; and a few Chapters more will deliver us altogether from ...

— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XX. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... hands, and in a denunciatory way poured forth a torrent of wild abuse. His eyes looked as if starting out of his head; he bared his arms, and, as it seemed to me, cursed and reviled me savagely as an infidel dog whom he would deliver over to the crows and jackals, while he hoped that the graves of my father, mother, and all our ancestors, might be defiled in ...

— Gil the Gunner - The Youngest Officer in the East • George Manville Fenn

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