delivery
delivery is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon.
- noun. The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters.
- noun. The act or style of utterance; manner of speaking; as, a good delivery; a clear delivery.
- noun. The act of giving birth; parturition; the expulsion or extraction of a fetus and its membranes.
- noun. The act of exerting one's strength or limbs.
- noun. The act or manner of delivering a ball; as, the pitcher has a swift delivery.
- noun. the act of delivering a child
- noun. recovery or preservation from loss or danger
"work is the deliverance of mankind"
"a surgeon's job is the saving of lives"
- noun. (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter
- noun. the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
"his reluctant delivery of bad news"
- noun. the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another
- noun. your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
"his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"
"her speech was barren of southernisms"
- noun. the event of giving birth
"she had a difficult delivery"
Synonyms
deliverance, rescue, saving, pitch, bringing, livery, speech
Common word forms
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