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Sacrifice 1

Definition: The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

Sacrifice 2

Definition: 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.

Sacrifice 3

Definition: 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.

Sacrifice 4

Definition: A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrifice 5

Definition: 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.

Sacrifice 6

Definition: 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.

Sacrifice 7

Definition: To destroy; to kill.

Sacrifice 8

Definition: To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrifice 9

Definition: To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

sacrifice 10

Definition: (sacrifice) an out that advances the base runners

sacrifice 11

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

sacrifice 12

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

sacrifice 13

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

sacrifice 14

Definition: a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"

sacrifice 15

Definition: kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"

sacrifice 16

Definition: make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

sacrifice 17

Definition: endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"

sacrifice 18

Definition: sell at a loss

 

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