SACRIFICE
Sacrifice
Sacrifice is the offering of food, objects or the lives of animals to a higher purpose, in particular divine beings, as an act of propitiation or worship. While sacrifice often implies ritual killing, the term offering can be used for bloodless sacrifices of cereal food or artifacts. For offerings of liquids by pouring, the term libation is used.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sacrifice
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sacrifice
Noun
- The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
- 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.
- the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer
- Something sacrificed.
- A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.
- A loss of profit.
- A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
Verb
- To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
- To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
- To destroy; to kill.
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