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- DictionarySac·ri·fice/ˈsakrəˌfīs/
noun
- 1. an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to God or to a divine or supernatural figure: "they offer sacrifices to the spirits"
verb
- 1. offer or kill as a religious sacrifice: "the goat was sacrificed at the shrine"
A sacrifice is a loss or something you give up, usually for the sake of a better cause. Parents sacrifice time and sleep to take care of their children, while kids might sacrifice TV time to hang out with mom and dad. Though no longer used only in a religious context, sacrifice comes from the Latin sacra and facere, meaning "to perform sacred ...
SACRIFICE meaning: 1 : the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone; 2 : an act of killing a person or animal in a religious ceremony as an offering to please a god
something useful or important that you choose not to do or have, in order to have something that is more important: make sacrifices Most workers have made sacrifices to keep the company alive. The economy is starting to grow and, after six years of sacrifice, to deliver higher incomes.
something valuable that you give up in order to achieve something, or the act of giving it up: Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to succeed. sacrifice noun [C, U] (KILL) something offered to a god in a religious ceremony, especially an animal that is killed, or the act of offering it. See also. self-sacrifice. sacrifice. verb [ T ]
sacrifice. noun. /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/ [countable, uncountable] the fact of giving up something important or valuable to you in order to get or do something that seems more important; something that you give up in this way. The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality.
sacrifice. [transitive] to give up something that is important or valuable to you in order to get or do something that seems more important for yourself or for another person. sacrifice something for somebody/something She sacrificed everything for her children.
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. [1] [2] Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly existed before that.
