immolate
verb
1 immolate
Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction.
Roget 361:
kill,
put to death,
slay,
shed blood;
murder,
assassinate,
butcher,
slaughter,
victimize,
immolate;
massacre;
take away life,
deprive of life;
make away with,
put an end to;
despatch,
dispatch;
burke,
settle,
do for.
strangle,
garrote,
hang,
throttle,
choke,
stifle,
suffocate,
stop the breath,
smother,
asphyxiate,
drown.
saber;
cut down,
cut to pieces,
cut the throat;
jugulate†;
stab,
run through the body,
bayonet,
eviscerate;
put to the sword,
put to the edge of the sword.
shoot dead;
blow one's brains out;
brain,
knock on the head;
stone,
lapidate†;
give a deathblow;
deal a deathblow;
give a quietus,
give a coupe de grace.
behead,
bowstring,
electrocute,
gas
etc.
(execute)
972.
hunt,
shoot
etc.
n..
cut off,
nip in the bud,
launch into eternity,
send to one's last account,
sign one's death warrant,
strike the death knell of.
give no quarter,
pour out blood like water;
decimate;
run amuck;
wade knee deep in blood,
imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death,
welter in one's blood;
dash out one's brains,
blow out one's brains;
commit suicide;
kill oneself,
make away with oneself,
put an end to oneself,
put an end to it all.
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Roget 784:
deliver,
hand,
pass,
put into the hands of;
hand over,
make over,
deliver over,
pass over,
turn over;
assign dower.
present,
give away,
dispense,
dispose of;
give out,
deal out,
dole out,
mete out,
fork out,
squeeze out.
pay
etc.
807;
render,
impart,
communicate.
concede,
cede,
yield,
part with,
shed,
cast;
spend
etc.
809.
give,
bestow,
confer,
grant,
accord,
award,
assign.
intrust,
consign,
vest in.
make a present;
allow,
contribute,
subscribe,
furnish its quota.
invest,
endow,
settle upon;
bequeath,
leave,
devise.
furnish,
supply,
help;
administer to;
afford,
spare;
accommodate with,
indulge with,
favor with;
shower down upon;
lavish,
pour on,
thrust upon.
tip,
bribe;
tickle the palm,
grease the palm;
offer
etc.
763;
sacrifice,
immolate.
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Dutch: vernietigen, offeren
Moby thesaurus: annihilate, appease, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, immolate before, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make away with, make propitiation, make sacrifice to, martyr, martyrize, offer sacrifice, poison, propitiate, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slay, starve, take life, take off, victimize ... show more.
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