redeliver

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/ˌɹiːdɪˈlɪvə(ɹ)/

verb

To give back; to return (something).

Scrabble 13

Meanings

verbredeliver (third-person singular simple present redelivers, present participle redelivering, simple past and past participle redelivered)

present singular third person redelivers · participle present redelivering · participle past redelivered · past redelivered

  1. To give back; to return (something).

    his father had then eigh[t] of our English men, many swords, peeces, and other tooles, which he had at seuerall times by trecherons murdering our men, taken from them, which though of no use to him, he would not redeliuer [...].

    1615, Ralph Hamor, A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia, Richmond, published 1957, pages 5–6
  2. To deliver (a letter, parcel, etc.) again.
  3. To deliver or liberate again.
  4. obsoleteTo report; to deliver the answer of.

    Shall I redeliver you e'en so?

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Old Frenchre-
  4. Middle Englishre-
  5. Englishre-
  6. Englishdeliver
  7. Englishredeliver

From re- + deliver.

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APA

redeliver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redeliver

MLA

“redeliver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redeliver. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “redeliver,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/redeliver.

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