delirious, adj. 1. deranged, unhinged, mad, Inf. out of or off one's head; irrational, incoherent, raving, ranting, babbling.
2. wild, wild-eyed, distracted, beside oneself, out of one's wits, frantic, frenzied, rabid, hysterical; hot, feverish, in a fever, febrile, flushed, burning; ecstatic, transported, carried away,
delirium, n. 1. (all usu. temporary) insanity, mad
ness, derangement; incoherence, ranting, raving, ranting and raving, babbling.
2. passion, fever, frenzy, fury, rage, furor; craze, hysteria; ecstasy, transport, rapture, abandon, intoxication.
deliver, v. 1. transfer, turn over, hand over, passover, Inf. fork up, Inf. fork out or over, present; convey, send, transmit, remit, forward; makeover, bequeath; yield, surrender, cede, concede, grant, relinquish, waive.
2. utter, voice, speak, enunciate, recite; express, declare, pronounce; communicate, impart, announce, proclaim, promulgate, publish.
3. direct, deal, put forth, project, launch; throw, pitch, cast, hurl; discharge, fire, shoot, eject, expel, emit.
4. liberate, emancipate, manumit, set free, release; disburden, unload, disencumber, disentangle, extricate, free; rescue, save, redeem, ransom; preserve, keep, protect, help, succor.
5. Informal, come through, do as expected; finish successfully, produce the promised results.
deliverance, n. 1. liberation, emancipation, manumission, setting free, release, extrication, escape; rescue, salvation, redemption, ransom; absolution, pardon, acquittance; reprieve, respite, armistice, truce.
2. pronouncement, declaration, proclamation, formal statement, announcement, report; judgment, sentence, verdict,
delivery, n. 1. transferal, transference, transmission, conveyance, dispatch, shipment; intrusting, handing over, giving over, giving up, surrender, rendition, relinquishment, resignation.
2. distribution, allotment, allocation, apportionment, dispensation, issuance.
3. utterance, speech, elocution; intonation, articulation, enunciation, pronunciation; style, manner, expression, execution, performance, presentation.
4. liberation, emancipation, deliverance. See - deliverance (def. 1).
5. parturition, childbirth, giving birth; childbed, accouchement, lying-in, confinement, labor, travail, throes; midwifery, obstetrics.
delude, v. deceive, mislead, misguide, misinform; fool, take in, throw dust in [s.o.'s] eyes, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, Inf. slip or pass [s.t.] over on, Inf. lead [s.o.] up the garden path; cozen, dupe, gull, defraud, cheat; rook, victimize, Archaic, chouse, bilk, swindle; pass off, palm off, impose upon, pull a fast one, Inf. throw a curve; humbug, gammon, bluff, juggle, have [s.t.] up one's sleeve, Inf. flimflam; hoodwink, trick, outwit, bamboozle, overreach; entrap, ensnare, enmesh; beguile, seduce, bait, decoy, lead on, take for a ride, Inf. fake [s.o.] out, Inf. rope [s.o.] in, Inf. string along; All Inf. fast-talk, flam, hype, jive, buffalo, bulldoze; All Sl. con, snow, suck in, sucker in, murphy; betray, play false, double-cross, two-time, Sl. shaft, Sl. cross [s.o.] up.
deluge, n. 1. flood, flash flood, inundation, Brit. spate, overflow, freshet; downpour, drenching rain, cloudburst.
2. avalanche, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, calamity, debacle.
- v. 3. flood, inundate, overrun, overflow; swamp, submerge, engulf, drown, bury, overwhelm.