|
sacrifice
has definitions from the fields of baseball,religion,military,business
|
|
| 1 |
[ verb ] endure the loss of
Synonyms Examples "He gave his life for his children" "I gave two sons to the war" Used in print (Schubert Ogden, Christ Without Myth....)Although they have also been concerned to stand squarely within the tradition of the apostolic church , they have exhibited no willingness whatever to sacrifice their modernity to their Christianity . |
| 2 |
[ noun ] the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
Synonyms Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)The victims of the quacks are frequently poor people , like Mr._A. , who scrape_up their life savings to offer as a sacrifice to Doctor_Fraud 's avarice . (Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)The civil_services in such societies are generally inadequate to deal competently with the problems facing them ; and their members often equate a government career with security and status rather_than with sacrifice , self-discipline , and competence . (Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)The great ultimate ends of religion have served as magnificent beacon_lights that lured people toward them with an almost irresistible force , mobilizing energies and inducing sacrifices ; for_example , the Crusades , mission efforts , just wars . (John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)This nettled the children into the revelation of exact truth , a sacrifice of their secret superiority over grown people , but a victory in the wide fields of perpetration and illegitimate accomplishment . Related terms |
| 3 |
[ noun ] (military) personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
Related terms |
| 4 |
[ verb ] kill or destroy
Examples "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment" "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment" Related terms |
| 5 |
[ verb ] (business) sell at a loss
Related terms |
| 6 |
[ noun ] a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
Examples "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice" Related terms |
| 7 | |
| 8 |
[ noun ] (religion) the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
Synonyms Related terms |
| 9 |
[ noun ] (in baseball) an out that advances the base runners
Related terms |
| * |
|