To free; release or rescue, as from captivity, oppression, or evil; set free; set at liberty: as, to deliver one from captivity.
To give or hand over; transfer; put into another's possession or power; commit; pass to another: as, to deliver a letter.
To surrender; yield; give up: as, to deliver a fortress to an enemy: often followed by up, and sometimes by over: as, to deliver up the city; to deliver up stolen goods; to deliver over money held in trust.
To disburden of a child in childbirth; aid in parturition; hence, figuratively, to disburden of intellectual progeny.
To discharge; cast; strike; fire: as, he delivered the blow straight from the shoulder; to deliver a broadside.
To make known; impart, as information.
To utter, pronounce, or articulate, as words; produce, as tones in singing; enunciate formally, as before an assemblage: as, to deliver an oration; he delivered the notes badly.
Synonyms To set free, liberate, extricate. To cede, grant, relinquish, give up. Pronounce, etc. See utter
In molding, to leave the mold easily.
Free; nimble; active; light; agile.
See deliber.