Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To bring or transport to the proper place or recipient; distribute.
  • intransitive verb To surrender (someone or something) to another; hand over.
  • intransitive verb To secure (something promised or desired), as for a candidate or political party.
  • intransitive verb To throw or hurl.
  • intransitive verb To strike (a blow).
  • intransitive verb To express in words; declare or utter.
  • intransitive verb To give birth to.
  • intransitive verb To assist (a woman) in giving birth.
  • intransitive verb To assist or aid in the birth of.
  • intransitive verb To give forth or produce.
  • intransitive verb To set free, as from captivity, peril, or evil: synonym: save.
  • intransitive verb To produce or achieve what is desired or expected; make good.
  • intransitive verb To give birth.
  • idiom (deliver (oneself) of) To pronounce; utter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To free; release or rescue, as from captivity, oppression, or evil; set free; set at liberty: as, to deliver one from captivity.
  • To give or hand over; transfer; put into another's possession or power; commit; pass to another: as, to deliver a letter.
  • To surrender; yield; give up: as, to deliver a fortress to an enemy: often followed by up, and sometimes by over: as, to deliver up the city; to deliver up stolen goods; to deliver over money held in trust.
  • To disburden of a child in childbirth; aid in parturition; hence, figuratively, to disburden of intellectual progeny.
  • To discharge; cast; strike; fire: as, he delivered the blow straight from the shoulder; to deliver a broadside.
  • To make known; impart, as information.
  • To utter, pronounce, or articulate, as words; produce, as tones in singing; enunciate formally, as before an assemblage: as, to deliver an oration; he delivered the notes badly.
  • Synonyms To set free, liberate, extricate. To cede, grant, relinquish, give up. Pronounce, etc. See utter
  • In molding, to leave the mold easily.
  • Free; nimble; active; light; agile.
  • See deliber.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Free; nimble; sprightly; active.
  • transitive verb 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.
  • transitive verb 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.
  • transitive verb To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
  • transitive verb To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge
  • transitive verb To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
  • transitive verb Poetic To discover; to show.
  • transitive verb obsolete To deliberate.
  • transitive verb obsolete To admit; to allow to pass.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To set free.
  • verb To give birth.
  • verb To assist in the birth of.
  • verb To bring or transport something to its destination.
  • verb To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.
  • verb To express in words, declare, or utter.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb carry out or perform
  • verb pass down
  • verb to surrender someone or something to another
  • verb free from harm or evil
  • verb utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.)
  • verb relinquish possession or control over
  • verb throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball
  • verb save from sins
  • verb hand over to the authorities of another country

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English deliveren, from Old French delivrer, from Late Latin dēlīberāre : Latin dē-, de- + līberāre, to free (from līber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin delīberō with a change of consonant.

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  • Reviled in reverse.

    July 22, 2007

  • Deliver forwards.

    August 30, 2008