Definition of Deliver

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Deliver

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.

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.

To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.

To discover; to show.

To deliberate.

To admit; to allow to pass.

Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

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Deliver Quotations

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison

And I don't cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza.
Tiger Woods

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
T. S. Eliot

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.
Richard Branson

Deliver Translations

deliver in Afrikaans is lewer, aflewer, inlewer
deliver in Dutch is afleveren, leveren, bestellen
deliver in French is livrer, extrader, livrons, livrez, livrent
deliver in German is ausliefern, befreien
deliver in Italian is estradare, fornire
deliver in Latin is refero, prodo, libero, vindico
deliver in Norwegian is levere
deliver in Portuguese is entregue

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