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sacrifice

noun

1 sacrifice

The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc..

synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture.

Roget 952: atonement, reparation; compromise, composition; compensation etc. 30; quittance, quits; expiation, redemption, reclamation, conciliation, propitiation; ... show more

Roget 784: giving etc. v.; bestowal, bestowment, donation; presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, ... show more

Roget 370: husbandry, taming etc. v.; circuration, zoohygiantics; domestication, domesticity; manege [Fr.], veterinary art; farriery; breeding, pisciculture.    menagerie, ... show more

Roget 162: destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization.    fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash; ... show more

Roget 990: worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration.    prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, ... show more

Dutch: offer, opoffering

2 sacrifice

Personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective).

Dutch: offer, opoffering

3 sacrifice

A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value.

4 sacrifice

The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.

synonym: ritual killing.

5 sacrifice

baseball An out that advances the base runners.

Dutch: offer, opoffering

verb

1 sacrifice

Endure the loss of.

synonym: give.

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; ... show more

Roget 162: be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, ... show more

Dutch: offeren, opofferen

2 sacrifice

Kill or destroy.

3 sacrifice

Sell at a loss.

4 sacrifice

Make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals.

Dutch: offeren, sacrificeren, sacrifiëren


Moby thesaurus: abandon, abandonment, abjuration, abjure, altruism, annihilate, appease, bane, be bereaved of, bereave of life, bereavement, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, burnt offering, carry away, carry off, cease, cede ... show more.

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sacrifices

noun

Roget 991: idolatry, idolism; demonism, demonolatry; idol-worship, demon-worship, devil-worship, fire-worship; zoolatry, fetishism, fetichism; ecclesiolatry, heliolatry, Mariolatry, ... show more

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