deliver

1. To assist a woman in childbirth. 2. To extract from an enclosed place, as the fetus from the womb, an object or foreign body, e.g., a tumor from its capsule or surroundings, or the lens of the eye in cases of cataract. [fr. O. Fr. fr. L. de- + liber, free]

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de·liv·er di-'liv-ər vb, de·liv·ered; de·liv·er·ing -(ə-)riŋ vt

1 a) to assist (a parturient female) in giving birth <she was \delivered of a fine boy>

b) to aid in the birth of <sometimes it is necessary to \deliver a child with forceps>

2) to give birth to <she \delivered a pair of healthy twins after a short labor> vi to give birth to offspring <patients that repeatedly \deliver prematurely present special problems>

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de·liv·er (de-livґər) [Fr., from L. deliberare to set free] 1. to aid in the process of childbirth. 2. to remove, as the fetus or placenta, or the lens of the eye.