sacrifice

Definitions of sacrifice in various dictionaries:

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

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

noun - a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value

noun - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

noun - (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

verb - endure the loss of

verb - kill or destroy

verb - sell at a loss

verb - make a sacrifice of

The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.

A victim offered in this way.

Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

Something so forfeited.

Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.

Something so relinquished.

A loss so sustained.

A sacrifice hit.

To offer as a sacrifice to a deity.

To forfeit (one thing) for another thing considered to be of greater value.

To sell or give away at a loss.

To make or offer a sacrifice.

To make a sacrifice hit.

SACRIFICE - Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or wor...