deliver

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   utter an exclamation or noise of some sort

   The students delivered a cry of joy.

2. 2
   verb

   bring to a destination, make a delivery

   our local super market delivers

3. 3
   verb

   throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball

   The pitcher delivered the ball

4. 4
   verb

   to surrender someone or something to another

   the guard delivered the criminal to the police

5. 5
   verb

   carry out or perform

   deliver an attack, deliver a blow

6. 6
   verb

   To set free from restraint or danger.

   The hostage was delivered from her captors and thus preserved from any danger.

7. 7
   verb

   Senses having to do with birth.

   the doctor delivered the baby

8. 8
   verb

   To free from or disburden of anything.

   Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.

Etymology

From Middle English deliveren, from Anglo-Norman and Old French delivrer, from Latin dē + līberō (“to set free”). Compare typologically dispatch, analyzable as dis- + impeach, from Latin impedicō (also akin to impede).