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Sac′ri.fic`er, n. Sacrifice. Originally meant 'to present or sacrifice something to a religious entity.' . From Latin sacrificium, related to sacrificus, 'sacrificial,' from sacer, 'holy, sacred.'
noun
1‘initiation ceremonies include the sacrifice of animals’
ritual slaughter, hecatomb, immolation, offering, oblation
2‘Abraham set out to offer Isaac as a sacrifice’
offering, votive offering, gift, oblation, victim, burnt offering
3‘the agreement has been achieved without any sacrifice of sovereignty’
giving up, abandonment, surrender, foregoing, renouncing, renunciation, renouncement, forfeiture, loss, relinquishment, resignation, abdication, signing away, yielding, ceding, waiving
4‘many parents make sacrifices to send their children to independent schools’
renunciation, relinquishment, loss, self-sacrifice
verb
1‘an ox and two goats were sacrificed’
offer up, immolate, slaughter
2‘he hadn't sacrificed his humanitarian principles’
give up, abandon, surrender, forgo, renounce, forfeit, relinquish, resign, abdicate, sign away, yield, cede, waive
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