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Sacrifice   /sˈækrəfˌaɪs/   Listen
Sacrifice

noun
1.
The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc..  Synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture.
2.
Personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective).
3.
A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value.
4.
The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.  Synonym: ritual killing.
5.
(baseball) an out that advances the base runners.
verb
(past & past part. sacrificed; pres. part. sacrificing)
1.
Endure the loss of.  Synonym: give.  "I gave two sons to the war"
2.
Kill or destroy.  "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
3.
Sell at a loss.
4.
Make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals.



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"Sacrifice" Quotes from Famous Books



... and a croaky voice. He has become a horror to me, and I resort to the most cowardly expedients to avoid meeting him. He, on the other hand, wanting another franc, dodges me round those trees at the corner, and at the back door; and I have a presentiment upon me that I shall fall a sacrifice to ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... the German nation, you will agree, I think, with me, that he did well and not ill; you will not sacrifice his great name to the disdain of a shallow philosophy, or to the grimacing of a dead superstition, whose ghost is struggling ...
— Short Studies on Great Subjects • James Anthony Froude
... centralized directive, all the important decisions of which have been thrashed out and re-thrashed until they have general support within the party; 600,000 men and women prepared, not only to vote in support of these decisions, but with a carefully fostered readiness to sacrifice their lives for them if necessary; 600,000 men and women who are persuaded that by their way alone is humanity to be saved; who are persuaded (to put it as cynically and unsympathetically as possible) that the noblest death one can die is in carrying ...
— The Crisis in Russia - 1920 • Arthur Ransome
... Lightfoot, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, the great rabbinical scholar of his time, attempted to reconcile the two main legends in Genesis by saying that of the "clean sort of beasts there were seven of every kind created, three couples for breeding and the odd one for Adam's sacrifice on his fall, which God foresaw"; and that of unclean beasts only one couple ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... a knot. "Buckingham has been wanting a sacrifice ever since he killed Wettin, that he might slay my mother ...
— The Lost Continent • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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