Definition of deliver
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To make over to the knowledge of another; to
communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
- v. t. - To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as,
to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
- v. t. - To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a
child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
- v. t. - To discover; to show.
- v. t. - To deliberate.
- v. t. - To admit; to allow to pass.
- v. t. - Free; nimble; sprightly; active.