Dictionary Entry
sacrifice
sacrifice is a 9-letter English word with 18 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 16 · Words With Friends 18 · 18 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
- 2noun
Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
- 3noun
Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
- 4noun
A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
- 5noun
To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
- 6noun
Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
- 7noun
To destroy; to kill.
- 8noun
To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
- 9intransitive verb
To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
- 10noun
(baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- 11noun
the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
Synonyms
- 12noun
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- 13noun
personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- 14noun
a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
"he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"
- 15verb
kill or destroy
"The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"
"The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
- 16verb
make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- 17verb
endure the loss of
"He gave his life for his children"
"I gave two sons to the war"
Synonyms
- 18verb
sell at a loss
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