Meaning & use
deliver
To bring and hand over goods, a message, or a service to the intended recipient.
See it in a sentence
The courier promised to deliver the package before noon on Friday.
The senator will deliver her speech to Congress tomorrow morning.
A note on using this word
Deliver also means to give birth ('she delivered twins') and to fulfill a promise ('the plan delivered results'), so context matters.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
withhold
Another way to use it
2. verb
To give birth to a baby, or to assist a mother during childbirth.
The midwife has delivered hundreds of babies at the rural clinic over twenty years.
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