deliver someone from someone or something

deliver someone from someone or something
deliver someone from someone or something
to save or rescue someone from someone or something. •

The hero delivered the children from a fiery death.

Thank you for delivering me from a very boring meeting by calling me to the telephone.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • deliver */*/*/ — UK [dɪˈlɪvə(r)] / US [dɪˈlɪvər] verb Word forms deliver : present tense I/you/we/they deliver he/she/it delivers present participle delivering past tense delivered past participle delivered 1) [transitive] to take something, especially goods or… …   English dictionary

  • deliver — verb 1 TAKE STH SOMEWHERE (I) to take goods, letters etc to the place where they have been sent: Do you deliver on Saturdays? | deliver sth to: Could you deliver this letter to the accounts department? | have sth delivered: I m having some… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • deliver — /dəˈlɪvə / (say duh livuh) verb (t) 1. to give up or surrender; give into another s possession or keeping. 2. to carry and pass over (letters, goods, etc.) to the intended recipient or recipients. 3. to direct; cast; cause to move in a certain… …  

  • deliver — 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… …   English new terms dictionary

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  • deliver — [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • deliver — [13] To deliver something is etymologically to ‘set it free’. The word comes via Old French delivrer from late Latin dēlīberāre, a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix dē and Latin līberāre ‘set free’, a derivative of the adjective… …   Word origins

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