sacrifice > define

noun

• The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc..
  • synonyms: forfeit, forfeiture
• Personnel that are sacrificed (e. G., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective. )
• A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value.
  • usage: "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"
• The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity.
  • synonyms: ritual killing
• Baseball) an out that advances the base runners. (

verb

• Endure the loss of.
  • usage: "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"
  • synonyms: give
• Kill or destroy.
  • usage: "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"
• Sell at a loss.
• Make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals. .

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) To destroy; to kill.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.i.) To make offerings to God or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The offering of anything to God or to a god; consecratory rite.
• (n.) To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.