sacrifice

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

sacrifices

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

sacrifice

past (v2)

sacrificed

past participle (v3)

sacrificed

present participle

sacrificing

3rd person singular

sacrifices

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

2. 2.A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.

3. 3.The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.

4. 4.Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.

2. 2.To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.

3. 3.To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.

   • Don't you break my heart / 'Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.
   • That is why God sacrificed His only begotten Son [Jesus]: so our incalculable debt of sin could be paid in full.
   • Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.

4. 4.Of a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.

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