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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

... it was all over. He had a great feeling for Olivier: but he was not a man to worry about what can't be helped: and he turned his thoughts to Christophe. He admired Christophe though he regarded him as a pathological case. He knew his ideas about the Revolution: and he wanted to deliver him from the idiotic danger he was running in a cause that was not his own. The risk of a broken head in the scuffle was not the only one: if Christophe were taken, everything pointed to his being used as an example and getting more than he bargained for. Manousse had long ago ...

— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland

... position by Fortune in one of her ironical moods, he is to be allowed merely a seat on the platform, where he may be seen but not heard. But to go back to the beginning. When it was learned that the President of the United States intended to honour us with a visit and to stand and deliver a speech, it occurred to a group of representative citizens that a professional baseball player and street-car conductor was scarcely a fit person to receive so distinguished a guest; so they very properly resolved that his part in the exercises should be reduced to ...

— The Mayor of Warwick • Herbert M. Hopkins

... went forthwith to the prison, and insisted upon seeing Jonathan Strong. He was admitted, and recognized the poor negro, now in custody as a recaptured slave. Mr. Sharp charged the master of the prison at his own peril not to deliver up Strong to any person whatever, until he had been carried before the Lord Mayor, to whom Sharp immediately went, and obtained a summons against those persons who had seized and imprisoned Strong without a warrant. The parties appeared before the Lord Mayor accordingly, and it appeared from ...

— Self Help • Samuel Smiles

... at the back of the shop—the room where he had seen the tears of suffering in Edith's eyes—came a woman who told him of Edith's having sold the business. She was excited by the message she had to deliver and walked past the waiting man, going to the screen door to stand with her back to him ...

— Marching Men • Sherwood Anderson

... have appointed me their Minister Plenipotentiary to your Majesty, and have directed me to deliver to your Majesty this letter, which contains the evidence of it. It is in obedience to their express commands, that I have the honor to assure your Majesty of their unanimous disposition and desire to cultivate the most liberal and friendly intercourse between your Majesty's subjects ...

— Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams - Sixth President of the Unied States • William H. Seward

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