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be delivered of

verb as in bear

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With this cry, and the echoing cries, the tarry service moved from its first stage of steady murmuring, broken by moans and now and again an isolated cry, into that stage of tears and groaning, of calling aloud and singing, which was like the labor of a woman about to be delivered of her child.

I pray God they may be delivered of the worst of the disease.

It is the job of the manager to go home and watch a replay of the game, in full, several times, with added breakdowns which will be delivered of all the data and trends deconstructed.

Mr. Butterworth’s longtime collaborator, the director Ian Rickson, fed him provocations from other artists: quotations written out on index cards, like one from Ted Hughes about how all poetry “is a revealing of something that the writer doesn’t actually want to say but desperately needs to communicate, to be delivered of.”

"This was your first baby and all the signs were good that you Mrs Hook would be delivered of a healthy baby, it really is a tragedy that that did not happen," he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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