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Definition: Deliver |
DeliverVerb1. Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea); "The commencement speaker presented a forceful speech that impressed the students". 2. Bring to a destination, make a delivery; "our local super market delivers". 3. To surrender someone or something to another; "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy". 4. Free from harm or evil. 5. Hand over to the authorities of another country. 6. Pass down; "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment". 7. Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.); "The students delivered a cry of joy". 8. From sins, as in religious dogma. 9. Carry out or perform; "deliver an attack", "deliver a blow"; The boxer drove home a solid left". 10. : relinquish possession or control over; "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in". 11. : throw or hurl, as in baseball; "The pitcher delivered the ball". 12. : give birth (to a newborn); "My wife had twins yesterday!". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "deliver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Sports & Leisure | Each player delivers two stones, alternately with his oppenent, from one end of the playing area to a target about 42 yards away. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: DeliverSynonyms: bear (v), birth (v), cede (v), deport (v), drive home (v), extradite (v), get in (v), give birth (v), give up (v), hand over (v), have (v), pitch (v), present (v), redeem (v), render (v), rescue (v), return (v), save (v), surrender (v), turn in (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deliverance | Verb: deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off,bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve; (restore); be rid of, get rid of. |
Evidence | Bear witness; Noun: give evidence; Noun: testify, depose, witness, vouch for; sign, seal, undersign, set one's hand and seal, sign and seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge; (assent). |
Giving | Verb: deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower. |
Judgment | Settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce, rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence, doom; find; give judgment, deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm; (assent). |
Liberation | Verb: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve; (acquit). |
Gain one's liberty, obtain one's liberty, acquire one's liberty; get rid of, get clear of; deliver oneself from; shake off the yoke, slip the collar; break loose, break prison; tear asunder one's bonds, cast off trammels; escape. | |
Speech | Verb: speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue. |
Submission | Lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down colors, strike one's flag, strike colors. |
Transference | Send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship, embark; waft; shunt; transpose; (interchange); displace; throw; drag; mail, post. |
Voice | Verb: utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry; (shout); ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear. |
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Crosswords: Deliver |
| English words defined with "deliver": atomic warhead ♦ bail, belt, betray ♦ charge, commission, contact lens ♦ Delivered, Delivering, Discharging rod ♦ endotracheal tube ♦ firing line, freight agent ♦ Garnishment, get off, give, Glover's tower ♦ hammer, harangue ♦ knock ♦ land, lecture, line of battle ♦ misdeliver, mission ♦ nasotracheal tube, nuclear warhead, nuke ♦ output contract ♦ Panegyrize, Parthian, parting, perorate, plug, preach, present, process, prophesy, Propine, pump, punch ♦ Redeliver, roundsman, runner ♦ sell, Seller's option, serve, sing, slogger, slugger, smack, speechwriter, stakeholder, strike, strike hard, swear out ♦ talk, The shorts, thermonuclear warhead, thwack, To hand over, To leave to one's self, To put to bed, To turn in, Trover ♦ Unbeat, Unbefool, Unpervert, Unprison ♦ Writ of privilege. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "deliver": Livery. (references) |
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Screenplays | Meow mix, meow mix, please deliver. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers) I deliver food for six years (Big Daddy; writing credit: Steve Franks) It says, 'May God deliver us from the venom of the Cobra, teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone) I'm sorry, Lieutenant, we were going to deliver him to you as a present (The Fugitive; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward) You're counting on the winged avenger to deliver you from evil, arn't you my friend (Batman Forever; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lee Batchler) | |
Lyrics | With every paper I'd deliver (American Pie; performing artist: Don McLean) Life will deliver a shock that will shiver (Love will turn; performing artist: Kenny Rogers) Of a world I want to conquer, and deliver, and despise (Rescue Me; performing artist: Madonna) Put it together, deliver it, make them feel it, bitch I been on (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Deliver Us from Eva (2003) Stand and Deliver (1928) Cash on Deliver (1926) Deliver the Goods (1915) Stand and Deliver (1997) | |
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In December 2002, CDC Clinicians trained state licensed vaccine administers how to deliver smallpox vaccine safely and efficiently. Once training was completed, they provided additional smallpox vaccine administration training in their home states. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Mobility forces deliver troops, equipment to Middle East. | |
![]() | Small tubes deliver irrigation water to young citus trees. Credit: Tim McCabe. | ![]() | Ponds to deliver water to cattle are a key to grazing management on a ranch in South Dakota. Credit: Unknown. |
"Religious fervor is mirrored on the face of a Black Muslim woman, one of some 10,000 listening to Elijah Muhammad deliver his annual Savior's Day message in Chicago. The city is headquarters for the Black Muslims. Their $75 million empire includes a mosque, newspaper, university, restaurants, real estate, bank, and variety of retail stores. Muhammad died February 25, 1975." By John H. White, Chicago, Illinois, March 1974. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency. | ![]() | Beached and sunk on the Guadalcanal shore, November 1943. She had been sunk by U.S. aircraft on 15 November 1942, while attempting to deliver men and supplies to Japanese forces holding the northern part of the island. Savo Island is in the distance. Credit: NAVY. | |
![]() | Artwork by Bacon, published in "Deeds of Valor", Volume II, page 74, by the Perrien-Keydel Company, Detroit, 1907. It depicts the attack on CSS Albemarle by a torpedo launch commanded by Lieutenant William B. Cushing, USN, at Plymouth, North Carolina, 27 October 1864. The torpedo boat is shown crashing over Albemarle's protective log boom to deliver its torpedo against the ironclad's hull. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | After the storm--only a few days after the opening of the Sicilian invasion, the beach near Scoglitti presented this peaceful appearance as an LCI (landing craft infantry) and an amphibious vehicle drew up to deliver and take on loads ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | The hopes of the party, prior to July 14th "from such wicked crown & anchor-dreams, good Lord deliver us". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Dog team used to deliver laundry. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Vaulted Ceiling" by Christie Ortiz Commentary: "A shot of an office building interior I used to deliver packages to." |
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| Deliver; informative; important; urgent; immediate; hasty; notice; notification . | |
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Giordano Bruno | It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment. |
John Ford | You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart. |
Sir George Jessel | The human brain is a wonderful organ. It starts to work as soon as you are born and doesn't stop until you get up to deliver a speech. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | To another I deliver lool. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | This, then, is a plain case for a mandamus, either to deliver the commission, or a copy of it from the record; and it only remains to be enquired, Whether it can issue from this court. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Germany undertakes to deliver to France seven million tons of coal per year for ten years. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He must then go to Arras, deliver the wrong Jean Valjean, denounce the right one. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | I am, in this, commanded to deliver The noble Duke of Clarence to your hands |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The development of new drugs or new ways to deliver standard drugs. (references) | |
So researchers have been looking at other ways to deliver drugs to the brain. (references) | ||
IVIG isn’t effective because there is no way to deliver IgA to mucous membranes. (references) | ||
Business | Parts manufacturers thus no longer deliver just parts. (references) | |
Imports are generally channeled through distributors who then deliver them to the final market. (references) | ||
They deliver public hospital services and a comprehensive array of community and public health services. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | Uchkun also refused to deliver Res Publica to the regions through its distribution system after it resumed publishing the newspaper. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | In April Uchkun temporarily refused to deliver Res Publica pending permission from the Justice Ministry after Res Publica and the closed Asaba newspaper printed a joint issue. (references) | |
Economic History | Australia | Suppliers need to be able to deliver quality products and/or services at attractive prices. (references) |
Human Rights | Dominican Republic | Those who deliver while incarcerated are permitted to keep their babies with them in prison until they reach 1 year of age. (references) |
Qatar | After both parties have stated their cases and examined witnesses, judges usually deliver a verdict after a short deliberation. (references) | |
Russia | Grigoryants was on his way to a conference in the U.S., where he planned to deliver a critical paper on current domestic developments. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | The PAP has an extensive grassroots system and a carefully selected, highly disciplined membership, including M.P.'s who maintain close contact with their constituents and who deliver effective government services. (references) |
Trade | Djibouti | For pharmaceutical products the health authorities deliver a certificate after ensuring that the products are not prohibited. (references) |
Australia | In December 1997, the Australian Government adopted Manufacturing-in-Bond (MiB), an initiative designed to deliver U.S. Foreign Trade Zone-style benefits to manufacturers located in Australia. (references) | |
Travel | Turkey | The PKK has attempted to use foreigners to deliver messages and packages in or outside of Turkey. (references) |
Mexico | Messengers and private delivery services routinely are used to deliver correspondence both intra- and inter-city. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Germany | The law prohibits the employment of children under the age of 15, with a few exceptions: Those 13 or 14 years of age may do farm work for up to 3 hours per day or may deliver newspapers for up to 2 hours per day; and those 3 to 14 years of age may take part in cultural performances, albeit under stringent curbs on the kinds of activity, number of hours, and time of day. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FRANKALMOIGNE, n. The tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands on condition of praying for the soul of the donor. In mediaeval times many of the wealthiest fraternities obtained their estates in this simple and cheap manner, and once when Henry VIII of England sent an officer to confiscate certain vast possessions which a fraternity of monks held by frankalmoigne, "What!" said the Prior, "would you master stay our benefactor's soul in Purgatory?" "Ay," said the officer, coldly, "an ye will not pray him thence for naught he must e'en roast." "But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth." |
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Dan Rather | Well, there are some similarities. Beginning with that you have two powers who not only have nuclear weapons but, as I said earlier, can deliver them. |
David Berkowitz | Bad thoughts or sinful thoughts come to everyone. But the Bible says that God makes a way of escape when someone has a bad thought, they can call on the Lord and the Lord will deliver them from that. |
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Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | I resisted the immense pressures of an election year to open the floodgates of Federal money and the temptation to promise more than I could deliver. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | For nearly a decade, Iraq has defied its obligations to destroy its weapons of terror and the missiles to deliver them. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Yet, in the events that have challenged us, we have also seen the character that will deliver us. |
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| "Deliver" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.29% of the time. "Deliver" is used about 2,106 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 85.29% | 1,796 | 4,710 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.99% | 295 | 16,921 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.66% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,106 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "deliver". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Pelatiah | N/A | Biblical | Let the Lord deliver |
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Expressions using "deliver": deliver a blow ♦ deliver a child ♦ deliver a judgement ♦ deliver a message ♦ deliver a paper ♦ deliver a speech ♦ deliver a verdict ♦ deliver an attack ♦ deliver an ultimatum to ♦ deliver an ultimatum to smb. ♦ deliver from ♦ deliver lecture ♦ deliver oneself ♦ deliver oneself of an opinion ♦ deliver oneself up ♦ deliver over ♦ deliver speech ♦ deliver the goods ♦ deliver up ♦ deliver us from evil. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "deliver": cheapest-to-deliver, re-deliver. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "deliver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | lewer (furnish, liver, supply), inlewer (convey, furnish, hand, hand over, pass, supply), aflewer (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Albanian | dorëzoj (cede, consign, devolve, disgorge, get through, give, give back, give over, give up, hand in, present, reach, serve, turn over, yield), dërgoj (cable, consign, delegate, despatch, detach, direct, dispatch, refer, relegate, send, send off, set forth, set off, transmit), shpëtoj (bring off, bring through, carry through, creep out, elude, escape, extricate, flee, get away, get off the hook, get out, get rid, get rid of, heal, preserve, rescue, rid, salvage, save, skip, spare), shpërndaj (allocate, allot, apportion, bestrew, broadcast, clear, deal, deploy, diffuse, disband, disembody, dish, dish out, dispel, dispense, disperse, disseminate, dissolve, distribute, diversify, give out, give rise to, hand out, intersperse, ladle, lay, lay out, mete, part, put out, scatter, share, shed, whiffle, wipe), prodhoj (bear, do, elaborate, fabricate, generate, make, manufacture, mill, produce, yield), paraqit, pajis me diçka, ndihmoj të lindë, mbaj një fjalim, jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, give in, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield), furnizoj (equip, equip with, feed, fit out, furnish, lay on, outfit, provide with, purvey, supply, victual), çoj (bring, conduce, drive, drop, give a lift, haul, haze, lead, lead off, lead up to, lift, pass, post, raise, rear, route, send, take off, take place, waft), çliroj (affranchise, cast off, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, emancipate, evolve, extricate, heal, liberate, lighten, ransom, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, unbend, unfetter, unpeg). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transfuse, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), نقذ (help, liberate, rescue, retrieve, salvage, salve, save), وفى بوعده (deliver the goods, go back on, honor, honour, promise, redeem), ولد (baby, bear, beget, born, boy, breed, bring forth, engender, fall, father, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, mother, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son, spawn), وزع (allocate, allot, apportion, cast, circulation, deal, deal out, diffuse, disburse, dispense, distribute, divide, dole out, hand out, issue, ladle, parcel, part, portion, seed, serve out), وجه ضربة (shoot), حول (ability, about, alien, around, be cross eyed, bleach, capricious, commit, concerning, deed, deter, divert, encode, hand down, hand over, make, metamorphose, power, process, redress, refer, relocate, round, stop, switch, transfer, transmute, transpose, turn, whimsical, withdraw, work, year), حرر (cast off, clear, decontrol, detach, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, grant freedom, liberate, manumit, open, phrase, redact, redeem, release, rescue, rid, set at large, set free, set loose, subedit, unchain, uncork, unleash, unlock, unstitch), سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, give in, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), خطب (affiance, contract, declaim, harangue, jaw, make a speech, speak, speechify), ألقى خطابا (say, speechify), ألقى (cast, cast down, dump, fasten, lay down, lot, recite, set down, shift, throw, throw down), أرسل (detach, emit, expedite, forward, issue, route, send, send off, toss off, transmit). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | спасявам (rescue, save), разнасям (carry, disseminate, hawk, puff, set about, spread), връчвам (give in, hand in, pass in, serve, serve with), водя (carry on, conduct, go, guide, keep, lead, manage, pilot, prevent, prosecute, pursue, take, usher in, wage), отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), нанасям (deal, inflict, land, lay, plant), акуширам, представям (depicture, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, offer, perform, present, project, put in, recommend, represent, show, stage, typify), предавам (carry, convey, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), правя (act, advance, contract, do, drive, enounce, gargle, lay, leave, make, pay, pull, put forward, put out, run off, strike, transact), изнасям (carry out, export, give, produce, remove), избавям (bring off, extricate, redeem, rescue, retrieve, rid, save), изпращам (consign, delegate, dismiss, dispatch, get off, pack off, relegate, see, see off, send, send off, send on, send out, ship, wing), давам обещания. (various references) | |
Chinese | 交付 (Deliverable, Delivered, Deliveries, Delivering, Delivery), 接生 . (various references) | |
Czech | dovézt (carry), doruèovat, doruèit (carry, forward, return, transmit), dodržet slovo (deliver the goods), dodat (add, furnish, impart, supply), dodávat (give, instill), zbavit (acquit, avoid, deprive, divest, release, relieve, rid), zasadit (bed, enroot, fit in, implant, inflict, lay on, set), vynést (announce, bring, bring in, carry out, fetch, take out), rozvézt, roznést (distribute, hawk, spread, tell abroad), pronést (interject, interpose, utter), podat (give, hand, hand back, hand down, hand in, hand over, reach, tender), osvobodit (affranchise, discharge, dispense, enfranchise, free, liberate, manumit, relieve, set free). (various references) | |
Danish | aflevere (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Dutch | leveren (furnish, supply), bestellen (book, furnish, order, reserve, supply, to order), afleveren (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Esperanto | liveri (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Faeroese | lata (allow, cause, dedicate, devote, entrust, furnish, get, leave, let, make, release, supply, tell), greiða (account for, analyse, clarify, comb, curl, define, determine, do, explain, furnish, supply), flýggja (flee, furnish, run away, supply). (various references) | |
Farsi | نجات دادن (Reclaim), تحویل دادن (Render, Surrender), ازادکردن (Assert, Ease, Extricate, Free, Liberate, Release, Uncage, Unfasten, Unfix, Unhitch, Unloose, Unstring, Unwrap, Unyoke), رستگارکردن . (various references) | |
Finnish | vapauttaa (exempt, free, liberate, release, relieve, rid, set free), vapahtaa (save), tuoda (bring, carry, fetch, introduce), toimittaa (arrange, attend to, carry out, compile, discharge, do, edit, perform, see to, supply), luovuttaa (cede, convey, extradite, give up, hand over, make over, relinquish, resign, surrender, transfer, yield), jakaa (deal, distribute, divide, divide split, give away, parcel out, portion out, separate, share), jättää (allow, give up, hand in, hand over, leave, leave . . to somebody, let, present, quit, release, retire from), esittää (execute, express, extend, give, introduce, introduce to, offer, present, produce, put forward, refer, render, set forth, show, state, tender), antaa jonkun haltuun (commit to the care of, entrust to, hand over to, leave in the hands of). (various references) | |
French | livrer (denounce, desert). (various references) | |
Frisian | leverje (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
German | ausliefern (consign, extradite, hand over, surrender, to deliver), liefern (furnish, give, provide, purvey, supply, to deliver, to deliver (from), to furnish, to provide, to supply, yield), befreien (absolve, affranchise, disabuse, dispense, emancipate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, extricate, free, lib, liberate, loose, loosen, purge, release, relieve, rescue, rid, set free, to enfranchise, to extricate, to relieve, unbind, unclog, unfetter, unshackle), austragen (abide, bear, carry out, deal with, endure, gestate, hold, put up with, sign out, suffer), abliefern (deposit, hand in, hand over, to deliver). (various references) | |
Greek | παραδίδω (commit, consign, give in, hand in, hand over, hand to, surrender), εκφωνώ (pronounce). (various references) | |
Hebrew | למסור (convey, forward, give, give in, give up, hand, hand over, impart, render, turn in), לשלח (dismiss, dispatch, drive out, launch, release, send off), לפלוט (blurt, disgorge, eject, emit, escape, slip, spew, throw up, vomit), לפרוק (discharge, extricate, set free, unburden, unload, unpack), לחלוץ (arm, draw, extract, extricate, pull out, rescue, take off, unship), לחלץ (disengage, extricate, remove, rescue), להציל (rescue, salvage, save), להסגיר (give in, hand over, isolate, surrender), לגאול (liberate, ransom, redeem, rescue, salvage), לסנוק (push, remove, supply). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szabadít, szállít (convey, haul, lift, purvey, to carry, to cart, to deliver, to expedite, to haul, to purvey, to ship, to transport, transport), kiszolgáltat (extradite, to consign, to deliver, to extradite, to give up). (various references) | |
Indonesian | drop (drop off), menyampaikan (convey, relay), mengirim (send), mengantar (transmit). (various references) | |
Italian | consegnare (commit, consign, entrust, hand, hand over, intrust, leave, present, resign, surrender). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 引き渡す (to deliver, to extradite, to hand over, to stretch across). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくりとどける (to deliver, to escorthome, to send to), しなものをおさめる (to deliver goods), くばる (to deliver, to distribute), ひきわたす (to deliver, to extradite, to hand over, to stretch across), うむ (existence, flag indicator, presence or absence marker, to deliver, to fester, to form pus, to get tired of, to give birth, to lose interest in, to produce, yes or no), うけわたす (to deliver), とどける (to deliver, to file notice, to forward, to report, to send). (various references) | |
Korean | 전하십시요. (various references) | |
Manx | seyrey (absolution, absolve, acquit, acquittal, affranchise, affranchisement, clear, clear from guilt, discharge, disembarrass, disencumber; exploit; clearing, disengage, dismiss, dismissal, disoblige, dispensation; exploitation, ease, emancipate, emancipation, enfranchise, exempt, exemption, exonerate, exoneration, free, justification, justify, liberate, liberation, purge, release, relieve, riddance, vindication, vindication act of), livrey (assign, liberate, rescue, yield up). (various references) | |
Norwegian | levere (furnish, hand, supply). (various references) | |
Papiamen | entregá (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eliverday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | entregar (charge, commit, consign, dispense, furnish, give, give in, give up, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, lay down, part with, relinquish, render, serve, supply, turn in, turn over, yield). (various references) | |
Romanian | da (accord, administer, afford, avail, beat, bestow, bind, deal, deliver up, extend, fetch, find, gift, give, give away, grant, hallo, hand, inflict, launch, lend, offer, pass, pay, push, reach, render, restore, return, sell, send, set, sound, sprout, yea, yes, yield), da în primire, dezlãnţui (rage, release, unbridle, unchain, uncouple, unleash), distribui scrisori, duce (bear, blow away, bring, carry, convey, die, drive, duke, fare, fool, go, guide, kid, lead, live, outsmart, palm off, prosecute, pull, push, support, take, tend, wage, wear), mântui (save), arunca (bowl, cast, cast aside, cast away, cast off, chuck, cob, dart, dash, discard, drop, fling, huddle on, hurl, jet, jettison, launch, peg, pelt at, pitch, pluck, plump, plunge into, precipitate, project, put, reject, rush, send, shoot, slam, sling, throw, throw away, throw off, throw out, toss, tumble), ceda drepturi, elibera (clear, clear out, discharge, disengage, emancipate, enfranchise, exonerate, free, give, issue, liberate, make out, manumit, privilege, ransom, release, remand, remit, rescue, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unhand, unshackle, vacate), furniza (afford, bring, expedite, find, give, instruct, provide, purvey, supply), izbãvi (save), ţine (carry, check, continue, endure, hang onto, happen, hold, keep, last, live, observe, own, poise, resist, retain, run, stand, stock, support, wield), livra (supply), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transfuse, transmit), moşi (dawle), porni în (go on), preda (give, give up, profess, render, surrender, teach, yield), produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring about, bring forth, cause, create, engender, fabricate, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, manufacture, mill, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield), pronunţa (articulate, form, give, give forth, pass, pronounce, say, sound, speak, spell, utter, vocalize), remite (give, hand, relegate, remit), rosti (breathe, enunciate, lip, pass, pronounce, put up, say, sound, speak, spout, utter, voice), salva (bring off, escape, extricate, free, pull through, redeem, rescue, salvage, salve, save), scãpa (acquit, break free, discharge, disembarrass, dodge, drop, escape, fail, filter, fly off, get free, get out of, jettison, leak, let slip, loose, loosen, Miss, obviate, omit, pass up, purge, put back, release, relieve, rescue, rid, save, slip), scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strike out, strip, take off, take out, utter), transfera (assign, cede, displace, relegate, remise, shift, sign off, transfer), lansa (circulate, dash, deploy, discharge, drop, fling, float, hurl, initiate, launch, plug, project, release, send, set off, shoot, start, throw). (various references) | |
Russian | доставлять (bring, furnish). (various references) | |
Scottish | liubhair (furnish, give to, supply, surrender). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | dostaviti (inform, rat, tattle), uručiti (award, hand to), raznositi (tattle), predati (commend, commit, consign, give in, give in charge, give over, hand, hand down, hand over, pass on, reach, surrender), poroditi (give birth), osloboditi (absolve, acquit, affranchise, disembarrass, disengage, exculpate, exempt, free, let loose, let off, liberate, make free, release, relieve, rid, set free, unbind, unleash, unloose, unyoke, vindicate), izručiti (drop, extradite, outpour, turn over). (various references) | |
Spanish | entregar (concede, consign, convey, fetch, furnish, give, give in, give over, give up, hand, hand in, hand over, Lodge, part with, pass, render, render up, serve, show up, spend, submit, supply, surrender, throw, turn in, turn over, yield). (various references) | |
Swedish | leverera (furnish, purvey, supply), avlämna. (various references) | |
Turkish | doğurtmak, devretmek (alienate, assign, cede, circuit, circulate, convey, devolve, dispose of, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, pass on, revolve, slew, slue, transfer, turn over), dağıtmak (be on the loose, bestrew, break on, crack up, deal, deal out, decompose, demount, deploy, diffuse, disband, disject, disjoint, dismantle, dispel, dispense, disperse, disrupt, dissipate, dissolve, distribute, divert, Dot, drown, fling off, hand out, issue, litter, mete out, pass out, rag, rough up, ruffle, rumple, scatter, strew, tumble), vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, give in, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver up, give in, give up, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go, let go one's hold of, let loose, let off, liberate, loose, manumit, release, relinquish, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unfreeze, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), söylemek (affirm, air, apprise, assert, aver, bade, bid, break, call, confess, couch, drop, enunciate, give voice to, hazard, impart, name, observe, order, pass, pronounce, remark, report, say, sing, sound, speak, speak of, spill, spit, spit out, state, tell, throw out, utter, voice, word), kurtarmak (absolve, bail, bail out, bring off, bring through, clean up, clear, disabuse, disabuse of, disembarrass, disembody, disengage, extricate, free, get smb. out of a jam, help, keep from, liberate, pull through, recover, redeem, relieve, rescue, retrieve, retrieve from, rid, salvage, salve, save, set free, tear away, unfetter, worry smb. out of smth.), iletmek (carry off, conduct, convey, get over, hand in, put across, transfer, transmit), atmak (affix, beat, blow, blow out, cashier, cast, cast away, cast off, catapult, chuck, chuck away, chuck out, dart, dash, discharge, doff, draw the longbow, drop, eject, elbow out, elbow smb. out, eliminate, fabricate, fetch, fib, flash, fling, fling away, fling out, fuse, fuze, give a kick, heave, hurl, inflict, insert, invent, junk, launch, let fly, loose, loose off, order off, peg, peg at, pelt, pitch, precipitate, project, pulsate, pulse, put, scutch, send, shoot, shoot out, shy, sling, tell a fib, tell lies, throw, throw away, throw into, toss, uncork, utter, void). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tabюyrmak (charge with a comission, entrust), gowюuramak, eltmek (bring, hand), дklemek (bring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розносити, вручати (give, give in, hand, hand in), виголошувати, випускати (discharge, emit, give out, issue, loose, omit, outlet, produce, set free, unclasp, vent), передавати (assign, attribute, circulate, communicate, devolve, give, give over, hand down, hand on, hand over, pass, present, reach, send, transfer, transmit), доставляти (bring, bring round, supply, take over). (various references) | |
Welsh | traddodi (commit), gwaredu (do away with, redeem, rid, save). (various references) | |
Zulu | -diliva (furnish, supply). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | kal-la. (various references) |
| Akkadian | 3000 BCE-Modern | dunnunu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acta, actu, actum, acturi, acturum, acturus, actus, agam, agamus, agant, agantur, agar, agarenos, agareos, agas, agat, agatis, agatur, age, agebant, agebat, agebatur, agendo, agendum, agens, agent, agente, agentes, agentibus, agentis, agentium, agere, agerent, agerentur, ageret, ageretur, ages, aget, agetis, agi, agimus, agis, agit, agite, agitur, ago, agunt, aguntur, de-, egerant, egerat, egere, egerim, egerimus, egerint, egeris, egerit, egeritis, egerunt, egeruntque, egi, egimus, egissent, egisset, egisti, egistis, egit, exhibeo, libero, privo, prodo, reddantur, reddasque, reddendo, reddent, reddente, redderet, reddet, reddetur, reddi, reddiderant, reddiderint, reddiderit, reddiderunt, reddidi, reddidistis, reddidit, reddiditque, reddimus, reddis, reddit, reddita, redditae, reddite, redditionis, redditis, redditur, reddituri, redditus, reddo, reddunt, refero, tradam, tradamque, tradamus, tradant, tradantur, tradar, tradas, tradat, tradatis, tradatur, trade, tradebant, tradebat, tradebatur, trademini, tradenda, tradendus, tradens, tradensque, tradent, tradente, tradentes, tradentis, tradentque, tradentur, tradere, traderem, traderent, traderentur, traderer, traderes, traderet, traderetur, traderis, trades, tradet, tradetisque, tradetque, tradetur, tradi, tradideras, tradiderim, tradideris, tradiderit, tradideritis, tradideritque, tradidero, tradiderunt, tradidi, tradidimus, tradidique, tradidissemus, tradidissent, tradidisti, tradidistis, tradidit, tradiditque, tradimur, tradit, tradita, traditae, tradite, traditi, traditique, traditis, traditor, traditum, traditur, traditurum, traditurus, traditus, trado, traduntur, vindico. (various references) |
| Old French | 900-1400 | baillier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Su men gar pataxeiV auton rabdw thn de yuchn autou ek qanatou rush |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Tu virga percuties eum et animam eius de inferno liberabis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thou with a yerde shalt smite hym, and the soule of hym fro helle thou shalt deliueren. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 23, Verse 14 |
| Cebuano | Imong pagahampakon gayud siya uban sa bunal, Ug maluwas ang iyang kalag gikan sa Sheol. |
| Chinese | 你 要 用 杖 打 他 、 就 可 以 救 他 的 靈 魂 免 下 陰 間 。 |
| Croatian | biješ ga šibom, ali mu dušu iz Podzemlja izbavljaš. |
| Danish | du slår ham vel med Riset, men redder hans Liv fra Dødsriget. |
| Dutch | Gij zult hem met de roede slaan, en zijn ziel van de hel redden. |
| Finnish | Vitsalla sinä häntä lyöt, tuonelasta hänen sielunsa pelastat. |
| French | En le frappant de la verge, Tu délivres son âme du séjour des morts. |
| German | Du haust ihn mit der Rute; aber du errettest seine Seele vom Tode. |
| Haitian Creole | Okontrè, si ou bat li, w'a sove nanm li pou l' pa mouri. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | malah akan selamat. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | melainkan apabila engkau memukul akan dia, barangkali engkau melepaskan nyawanya dari pada neraka. |
| Italian | anzi, se lo batti con la verga, lo salverai dagli inferi. |
| Korean | 그 를 채 찍 으 로 때 리 면 그 영 혼 을 음 부 에 서 구 원 하 리 라 |
| Maori | Tatatia ia e koe ki te rakau, a ka whakaorangia e koe tona wairua i te reinga. |
| Norwegian | Du slår ham med riset, men du frelser hans sjel fra dødsriket. |
| Portuguese | Tu a fustigarás com a vara e livrarás a sua alma do Seol. |
| Rumanian | Lovindu -l cu nuiaua, ki scoyi sufletul din locuinya moryilor. |
| Russian | ФЩ ОБЛБЦЕЫШ ЕЗП ТПЪЗПА Й УРБУЕЫШ ДХЫХ ЕЗП ПФ РТЕЙУРПДОЕК. |
| Spanish | Tú lo castigarás con vara y librarás su alma del Seol. |
| Swedish | ja, om du slår honom med riset, så räddar du hans själ undan dödsriket. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deliver": deliverabilities, deliverability, deliverable, deliverance, deliverances, delivered, deliverer, deliverers, deliveries, delivering, delivers, delivery, deliveryman, deliverymen. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "deliver": outdeliver, redeliver. (additional references) | |
Words containing "deliver": nondeliveries, nondelivery, outdelivered, outdelivering, outdelivers, postdelivery, predeliveries, predelivery, redelivered, redeliveries, redelivering, redelivers, redelivery, undeliverable, undelivered. (additional references) | |
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"Deliver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beliver, Dehlavi, delavayi, delever, Delibe, delice, delie, deliever, deliuer, Delivas, delive, deliverd, delivred, delivrer, delvie, delvier, delyved, Dolivo, duvivier, Eelavar, elever. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deliver" (pronounced duli"ver) |
| 4 | -l i" v er | liver, sliver. |
| 3 | -i" v er | downriver, giver, quiver, river, shiver, upriver. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: relived, reviled. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
-1 letter: delver, derive, drivel, eviler, levied, levier, lieder, liever, reived, relied, relive, revile, veiled, veiler. | |
-2 letters: delve, devel, devil, diver, drive, edile, eider, elder, elide, elver, ervil, idler, lever, lieve, lived, liver, livre, reive, revel, riled, rived, viler. | |
-3 letters: deer, deil, dele, deli, dere, diel, dire, dirl, dive, dree, eide, ever, evil, idle, ired. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-l-r-v" | |
+1 letter: bedrivel, delivers, delivery, desilver, driveled, driveler, evildoer, liveried, overidle, relieved, silvered, slivered. | |
+2 letters: bedrivels, daredevil, delivered, deliverer, derivable, desilvers, devilries, diversely, driveable, drivelers, driveline, drivelled, evildoers, overlived, overplied, prevailed, reavailed, redeliver, replevied, shriveled, velarized. | |
+3 letters: bedriveled, cavaliered, daredevils, decemviral, deliverers, deliveries, delivering, derisively, desilvered, deviltries, drivelines, driverless, outdeliver, overbilled, overboiled, overfilled, overgilded, overkilled, overmilked, overtoiled, privileged, pulverised, pulverized, redelivers, redelivery, redissolve, relievedly, replevined, resilvered, revalidate, shrivelled, silverside, silverweed, surveilled, unrelieved, verbalized, vernalized. | |
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