(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something somewhere, you take it there.
The Canadians plan to ~ more food to southern Somalia...
The spy returned to ~ a second batch of classified documents...
VERB: V n to n, V n
2.
If you ~ something that you have promised to do, make, or produce, you do, make, or produce it.
They have yet to show that they can really ~ working technologies...
We don’t promise what we can’t ~.
VERB: V n, V
3.
If you ~ a person or thing into someone’s care, you give them responsibility for that person or thing. (FORMAL)
Mrs Montgomery was ~ed into Mr Hinchcliffe’s care...
David ~ed Holly gratefully into the woman’s outstretched arms...
= hand over
VERB: be V-ed into/to n, V n into/to n
4.
If you ~ a lecture or speech, you give it in public. (FORMAL)
The president will ~ a speech about schools...
VERB: V n
5.
When someone ~s a baby, they help the woman who is giving birth to the baby.
Her husband had to ~ the baby himself.
VERB: V n
6.
If someone ~s a blow to someone else, they hit them. (WRITTEN)
Those blows to the head could have been ~ed by a woman.
VERB: be V-ed, also V n