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Definitions for Sacrifice
[1] the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
[2] the person, animal, or thing so offered.
[3] the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.
[4] the thing so surrendered or devoted.
[5] a loss incurred in selling something below its value.
[6] Also called sacrifice bunt, sacrifice hit . Baseball . a bunt made when there are fewer than two players out, not resulting in a double play, that advances the base runner nearest home without an error being committed if there is an attempt to put the runner out, and that results in either the batter's being put out at first base, reaching first on an error made in the attempt for the put-out, or being safe because of an attempt to put out another runner.
[7] to make a sacrifice or offering of.
[8] to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.
[9] to dispose of (goods, property, etc.) regardless of profit.
[10] Baseball . to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a sacrifice.
[11] Baseball . to make a sacrifice: He sacrificed with two on and none out.
[12] to offer or make a sacrifice.
[13] a surrender of something of value as a means of gaining something more desirable or of preventing some evil
[14] a ritual killing of a person or animal with the intention of propitiating or pleasing a deity
[15] a symbolic offering of something to a deity
[16] the person, animal, or object surrendered, destroyed, killed, or offered
[17] a religious ceremony involving one or more sacrifices
[18] loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
[19] chess the act or an instance of sacrificing a piece
[20] to make a sacrifice (of); give up, surrender, or destroy (a person, thing, etc)
[21] chess to permit or force one's opponent to capture (a piece) freely, as in playing a combination or gambit he sacrificed his queen and checkmated his opponent on the next move
Words related to Sacrifice
reparation, penance, libation, offering, oblation, deduction, discount, reduction, atonement, suffer, cede, waive, offer, forfeit, drop, renounce, yield, forgo, eschew, spare
Words nearby Sacrifice
sacred order, sacred roman rota, sacred site, sacred thread, sacred writ, sacrifice, sacrifice fly, sacrifice paddock, sacrificial, sacrificial anode, sacrilege
Origin of Sacrifice
1225–75; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin sacrificium, equivalent to sacri- (combining form of sacer holy) + -fic-, combining form of facere to make, do1 + -ium -ium; (v.) Middle English sacrifisen, derivative of the noun
Other words from Sacrifice
sac·ri·fice·a·ble , adjective
sac·ri·fic·er , noun
non·sac·ri·fice , noun
non·sac·ri·fic·ing , adjective
pre·sac·ri·fice , noun, verb, pre·sac·ri·ficed, pre·sac·ri·fic·ing.
su·per·sac·ri·fice , noun, verb (used with object), su·per·sac·ri·ficed, su·per·sac·ri·fic·ing.
un·sac·ri·fice·a·ble , adjective
un·sac·ri·ficed , adjective
un·sac·ri·fic·ing , adjective
well-sac·ri·ficed , adjective
Word origin for Sacrifice
C13: via Old French from Latin sacrificium, from sacer holy + facere to make
Synonyms for Sacrifice
atonement, deduction, discount, libation, oblation, offering, penance, reduction, reparation, sacrificial lamb