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redelivering

redelivering is the present participle and gerund of redeliver.

Meaning of redeliver

Verb

redeliver (third-person singular simple present redelivers, present participle redelivering, simple past and past participle 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. (obsolete) To 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...

Questions about redelivering

What is redelivering the present participle and gerund of?
Redelivering is the present participle and gerund of redeliver.

Words near redelivering in the dictionary

  1. redeliverance
  2. redelivered
  3. redeliverer
  4. redeliverers
  5. redeliveries
  6. redelivering
  7. redelivers
  8. redelivery
  9. Redell
  10. redemand
  11. redemandable

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