Word Finder - deliver

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To set free from restraint or danger.

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deliver a captive from the prison

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• free
• liberate
• release

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(process) To do with birth.

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To free from or disburden of anything.

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To bring or transport something to its destination.

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deliver a package;  deliver the mail

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To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

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deliver the thief to the police

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To produce what was expected or required.

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To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

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deliver a speech

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To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

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to deliver a blow

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To discover; to show.

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To admit; to allow to pass.

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To administer a drug.

Not 'til we deliver the Spring waters.

He then instructed his manservant to deliver them.

Fred asked at one point, on his way to deliver cookies and hot chocolate to the parlor.

Alexander now feared that the king might depose him for simony and summon a council, but he won over the bishop of St Malo, who had much influence over the king, with a cardinal's hat, and agreed to send Cesare, as legate, to Naples with the French army, to deliver Jem to Charles and to give him Civitavecchia (January 16, 1495).

I sure hope you're going to deliver what you've been promising all evening.

The other, a law of peace, work and health, whose only aim is to deliver man from the calamities which beset him.

Dean agreed and promised to call when he returned and arrange to deliver the articles to her.

Lundy is said to have been the first to deliver anti-slavery lectures in the United States.

She sat down to plot, not wanting to think what would happen if she failed to deliver the Horsemen somewhere safe or how much her Guardian would despise her once she acted.

When Theseus set out for Crete to deliver Athens from the tribute to the Minotaur he promised Aegeus that, if he were successful, he would change the black sail carried by his ship for a white one.

He should be able to deliver.

Early in the year the crown prince Humbert with the Princess Margherita took up their residence in the Quirinal Palace, which, in view of the Vatican refusal to deliver up the keys, had to be opened by force.

Jackson offered, "We'll have a truck deliver them… and I'll help with the carving."

As usual, you deliver.

The Board of Agriculture in 1803 had commissioned Sir Humphry Davy to deliver a course of lectures on the connexion of chemistry with vegetable physiology.

Yet again, Saul had been chosen by Yahweh to free his people from the Philistines; he had been rejected for his sins, and had suffered continuously from this enemy; Israel at his death was left in the unhappy state in which he had found it; it was the Judaean David, the faithful servant of Yahweh, who was now chosen to deliver Israel, and to the last the people gratefully remembered their debt.

The reasons on which the Duc de Bassano based his refusal to deliver them to him would never have led me to suppose that that could serve as a pretext for aggression.

Maybe I know he's promising more than he can deliver.

We went down to Mr. Getson's place to deliver a calf.

Nicanor threatened to destroy the Temple if the priests would not deliver Judas into his hands.

The messenger rushed across the street to deliver his package to the man on the corner.

Whoever is behind sending you here is probably threatening you, if you don't deliver.

All the proceedings were conducted in writing, and the judges were not confronted with either the parties or the witnesses until they emerged to deliver judgment.

In Roman imperial times the ephebi had to deliver a speech at the Haloa.

If there be none the tenant is bound and entitled to deliver fair marketable grain of the same kind."

Even then the day might have been saved had Blucher been able to find even twenty squadrons accustomed to gallop together, but the Prussian cavalry had been dispersed amongst the infantry commands, and at the critical moment it proved impossible for them to deliver a united and decisive attack.

In view of the fact that the First and Third British Armies were faced with strong positions in the Canal du Nord and the Scheldt canal, which it was advisable to carry prior to the general attack on the Hindenburg line behind the latter obstacle, it was decided that these two armies should open their operations a day earlier than the Fourth Army, so as to draw off the German reserves from the front of that army, which had to deliver the main attack and was faced with the most formidable defences.

Practically all the United States traffic is confined to vessels passing through the main lake between Lakes Superior and Michigan and Lake Erie, but on the Canadian side are several railway termini which receive grain mostly from Lake Superior, and deliver mixed freight to ports on that lake.

Airwave also makes it possible to deliver a wide range of highly resilient and secure data services to front-line ambulances.

I want devolution to work, to deliver for the people of Scotland.

Deliver Us From Evil is a good read, clever, brutal, with sly touches of dark humor.

You can usually count on Overstock.com to deliver great deals.

If you are feeling tuckered out after an especially taxing day, the hotel will gladly deliver room service.

On the following day he was admitted to the royal presence, and presenting his letters he told the king that he had an important and confidential message to deliver.

When, therefore, in 1850, Mr Stowe was elected to a professorship in Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and removed his family thither, Mrs Stowe was prepared for the great work which came to her, bit by bit, as a religious message which she must deliver.

Hermas begins to deliver the message of Vis.

Korea, however, had neither a literary nor an ethical message to deliver, and thus her script failed to attract much attention.

This syndicate did not undertake to deliver a letter direct to an addressee.

Whichever element is emphasized in preaching, the preacher is one who believes himself to be the ambassador of God, charged with a message which it is his duty to deliver.

He fell in battle against the Minyans, against whom he had undertaken an expedition, accompanied by the youthful Heracles, to deliver Thebes from a disgraceful tribute.

On the 1st of September in the year zoo, when Trajan was consul for the third time, Pliny, who had been designated consul for a part of the year, was appointed to deliver the "Panegyric" which has come down to us, and forms a most important source of our knowledge concerning this emperor.

In his hands the history of Florence became a text on which at fitting seasons to deliver lessons in the science he initiated.

The emperor Frederick II.'s edicts and the so-called etablissements of St Louis provide that the civil officers should search out suspected heretics and deliver them to the ecclesiastical judges.

The Prussians had seized the opportunity offered by the slackening of the French attacks to rally and deliver a counterstroke, which was parried, after achieving a small measure of success, by the bayonets of the Young Guard.

In the same year he had been an unsuccessful candidate for the professorship of the practice of physic, but subsequently an arrangement was made between him and John Gregory, who had gained the appointment, by which they agreed to deliver alternate courses on the theory and practice of physic. This arrangement proved eminently satisfactory, but it was brought to a close by the sudden death of Gregory in 1773.

The machine can be set to deliver a certain number of coins, after which the counting wheel stops automatically.

When Major Richard Ingoldsby arrived with two companies of the king's soldiers and demanded possession of the fort, Leisler refused although he still professed his willingness to deliver it to Sloughter.

He lost no time in entering into fresh negotiations with the French government, and a draft treaty was already early in October drawn up in Paris and the Count d'Estrades was commissioned to deliver it in person to the prince of Orange.

In 1886 he was selected by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland to deliver the Rhind lectures on archaeology, out of which grew his Handbook of Greek Archaeology (1892).

He was frequently invited to deliver an "oration" on some topic of historical or other interest.