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Definition: Meaning of, sacrifice in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / ˈsakrɪfʌɪs /

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sacrifice sacrifices
  1. [uncountable and countable] when you decide not to have something valuable, in order to get something that is more important
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  2. [uncountable and countable] the act of offering something to a god, especially in the past, by killing an animal or person in a religious ceremony
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  3. [countable] an animal, person, or object offered to a god in sacrifice
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  4. literary the final/supreme/ultimate sacrifice the act of dying while you are fighting for a principle or in order to help other people
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Prsesent Past Past Participle
sacrifice sacrificed sacrificed
Present Participle Third Person Singular
sacrificing sacrifices
  1. [transitive] to willingly stop having something you want or doing something you like in order to get something more important
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  2. [intransitive and transitive] to kill an animal or person and offer them to a god in a religious ceremony
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sacrifice used in phrases

  • Feast of Sacrifice (noun)
    1. commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep and give at least a third of the meat to charity
  • sacrifice fly (noun)
    1. a sacrifice made by hitting a long fly ball
  • sacrifice operation (noun)
    1. killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself; usually accomplished with a bomb
  • self-sacrifice (noun)
    1. when you decide not to do or have something you want or need, in order to help someone else
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