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deliververb to free from the penalties or consequences of sindeliver us from evil redeem, save reclaim, reformforgive, pardon, remit, shrivebless, hallowconsecrate, purify, sanctify to remove from danger or harmthe passengers waited for the rescue ship to come and deliver them bail out, bring off, rescue, save salvageemancipate, free, liberate, manumit, releasedisentangle, extricaterecover adventure, compromise, endanger, gamble (with), hazard, imperil, jeopardize, peril, risk, venture to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duressdelivered up the ransom money cede, cough up, give up, hand over, lay down, relinquish, render, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield commit, consign, entrust(also intrust), transferforfeit, release, waiveabnegate, renounce, resignabandon, desert, discard, forsake, part (with), shed keep, retain, withhold to put (something) into the possession of someone for use or consumptionthe inn endeavors to deliver the luxuries that its well-heeled guests have come to expect feed, furnish, give, hand, hand over, provide, supply ply (with)administer, allocate, apportion, deal (out), dispense, distribute, dole out, mete (out), parcel (out), portion, prorateassign, cede, deed, make over, transfer hold (back), keep (back), reserve, retain, withhold conserve, keep up, maintain, preserve, save to put (something) into the possession or safekeeping of anotherdelivered the prisoners to the sheriff commend, commit, confide, consign, delegate, entrust(also intrust), give, give over, hand, hand over, leave, pass, recommend, repose, transfer, transmit, trust, turn over, vest confer, grantassign, deal (out), dispense, disperse, distribute, dividehand in, release, relinquish, submit, surrender, turn in, yieldbequeath, hand down, hand on, willadvance, lend, loanfurnish, supplyrecommit, redeliver, retransfer, retransmit hold, keep, retain detain, hold back, reserve, withholdown, possessaccept, receive, take inoccupy, take, take over to turn out as planned or desiredfinally, a summer blockbuster that delivers click, come off, go, go over, pan out, succeed, work out catch onflourish, prosper, thrivecook, percolate bear fruit, catch fire, deliver the goods, do the trick, go like clockwork bomb, collapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, founder, miss, strike out, wash out languishflounder, struggledecline, sink, skid, slip, slump, wanecrash, crater, crumble, flame outchoke, crack up, miscarry, misfirefall down, go underimplode, self-destruct to bring forth from the wombshe delivered four healthy babies bear, birth(chiefly dialect), drop, have, mother, produce laborbreed, multiply, propagate, reproduce, spawnbeget, father, generate, get, sirecalve, kid, kindle, kitten, litter, pup, whelp give birth to abort, lose, miscarry to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedlydeeply dissatisfied with his dissolute lifestyle, he resolved to deliver himself over to the ways of the Lord abandon, give up, indulge, surrender, yield overdo, overindulgebask, luxuriate, revel, roll, wallow deny abstain (from), eschew, forbear, forgo(also forego), refrain (from)check, inhibit, restrain rescue, deliver, redeem, ransom, reclaim, save mean to set free from confinement or danger.rescue implies freeing from imminent danger by prompt or vigorous action.rescued the crew of a sinking ship deliver implies release usually of a person from confinement, temptation, slavery, or suffering.delivered his people from bondage redeem implies releasing from bondage or penalties by giving what is demanded or necessary.job training designed to redeem school dropouts from chronic unemployment ransom specifically applies to buying out of captivity.tried to ransom the kidnap victim reclaim suggests a bringing back to a former state or condition of someone or something abandoned or debased.reclaimed long-abandoned farms save may replace any of the foregoing terms; it may further imply a preserving or maintaining for usefulness or continued existence.an operation that saved my life in the 13th century |