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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"
1. : an act of offering to a deity something precious. especially : the killing of a victim on an altar. 2. : something offered in sacrifice. 3. a. : destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else. b. : something given up or lost. the sacrifices made by parents. 4. : loss. goods sold at a sacrifice. 5. : sacrifice bunt.
noun. a surrender of something of value as a means of gaining something more desirable or of preventing some evil. a ritual killing of a person or animal with the intention of propitiating or pleasing a deity. a symbolic offering of something to a deity. the person, animal, or object surrendered, destroyed, killed, or offered.
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.
sacrifice noun [C or U] (GIVING UP) C1. the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else: make a sacrifice We had to make sacrifices in order to pay for our children's education. at great sacrifice They cared for their disabled son for 27 years, at great personal sacrifice.
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
