deliver

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deliver/dɪˈlɪvə(r)/

▶verb

• 1 bring and hand over (a letter or goods) to the appropriate recipient.

  ■ formally hand over (someone).

• 2 provide (something promised or expected).

  ■ Law acknowledge that one intends to be bound by (a deed), either explicitly by declaration or implicitly by formal handover.

• 3 launch or aim (a blow or attack).

• 4 state or present in a formal manner: he will deliver a lecture on endangered species.

• 5 assist in the birth of.

  ■ (also be delivered of) give birth to.

• 6 save or set free: deliver us from these villains.

– derivatives
deliverable adjective & noun,
deliverer noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. delivrer, based on L. de- ‘away’ + liberare ‘set free’.