Crossword clues for delivered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deliver \De*liv"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Delivered; p. pr. & vb. n. Delivering.] [F. d['e]livrer, LL. deliberare to liberate, give over, fr. L. de + liberare to set free. See Liberate.]
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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.
He that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
--Ezek. xxxiii. 5.Promise was that I Should Israel from Philistian yoke deliver.
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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.
Thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand.
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The constables have delivered her over.
--Shak.The exalted mind All sense of woe delivers to the wind.
--Pope.3. To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.
Till he these words to him deliver might.
--Spenser.Whereof the former delivers the precepts of the art, and the latter the perfection.
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To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.
Shaking his head and delivering some show of tears.
--Sidney.An uninstructed bowler . . . thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straightforward upon it.
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To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of.
She was delivered safe and soon.
--Gower.Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones.
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To discover; to show. [Poetic]
I 'll deliver Myself your loyal servant.
--Shak. To deliberate. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.-
To admit; to allow to pass. [Obs.]
--Bacon.Syn: To Deliver, Give Forth, Discharge, Liberate, Pronounce, Utter.
Usage: Deliver denotes, literally, to set free. Hence the term is extensively applied to cases where a thing is made to pass from a confined state to one of greater freedom or openness. Hence it may, in certain connections, be used as synonymous with any or all of the above-mentioned words, as will be seen from the following examples: One who delivers a package gives it forth; one who delivers a cargo discharges it; one who delivers a captive liberates him; one who delivers a message or a discourse utters or pronounces it; when soldiers deliver their fire, they set it free or give it forth.
Wiktionary
(label en in combination) That has been, or will be, delivered in a specific manner. v
(en-past of: deliver)
Wikipedia
Delivered is a 1999 thriller/crime film directed by Guy Ferland. A pizza boy finds a murdered man at his next delivery and becomes the murderer's next intended victim.
Usage examples of "delivered".
Once the message is delivered, consider yourself under Lesatin's orders.
One misplaced inflection and you had delivered a gross insult back to the first generation.
That mildly delivered statement brought quite a reaction around the table.
So, early on the scheduled morning, Kelly Reeve delivered the guest at the hospital.
Varian arrived half-way through the ponderous and slowly delivered reply.
There was a great coming and going as giffs filled their food pouches and delivered the day's catch to the cave -- or nest -- bound.
This," and Mayerd waved the pad, "goes directly into QM, and I'll see that it's delivered to the site tomorrow morning.
He waved his hands to underscore the importance of a point he was making, nearly to the destruction of the meals for the next table, being delivered at that moment by a server.
You had just delivered a baby to a dolphin couple under-water in the salt-water environment.
As he folded, Lunzie delivered a solid chop to the back of his neck with her stiffened hand.
Lunzie bought one by credit, extracting a promise from the RSN representative by comlink that it would be delivered to the hotel in the morning.
Coromell said, completely surprising Lunzie with this remark delivered in the manner of keeping a conversation going.
Ambrosia must be a classified matter at the highest level, and she was only the envelope which had delivered the letter, not entitled to know more.
But if she used Discipline to kill, her ability would be revealed when Medical examination would show that a small female's hands had delivered the death blows.
Pollili delivered the last with an air of disgust overlaying her evident grief.