v.
- bring and hand over (a letter or goods) to the appropriate recipient.
▸formally hand over (someone).
- provide (something promised or expected).
▸Law acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover.
- launch or aim (a blow or attack).
- state or present in a formal manner:
he will deliver a lecture on endangered species.
- assist in the birth of.
▸
(also be delivered of)
give birth to.
- save or set free:
deliver us from these villains.
Derivative
- deliverable adj. & n.
- deliverer n.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. delivrer, based on L. de- ‘away’ + liberare ‘set free’.