To hand someone or something over to an authority, especially formally or under compulsion.
To give someone or something to a person in charge, often because you have to.
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To hand over a person or thing, especially to an authority, often under compulsion.
"The rebels were ordered to deliver up their weapons before sunrise."
Deliver up the body of your king to me.
— William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act III, Scene III (c. 1595)
To bring or carry something upward and present it.
To give someone or something to a person in charge, often because you have to.
Formal, literary, or biblical in tone. Found in legal and historical texts. The particle 'up' suggests submission to a higher power. In modern contexts, 'hand over' or 'surrender' is used instead.
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