sacrifice
sa kruh fahys
- n the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
- n personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
- n a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice - n the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
- n (baseball) an out that advances the base runners
- v endure the loss of
- v kill or destroy
The animals were sacrificed after the experiment
The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment - v sell at a loss
- v make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
- Said Singh: "He promised that a human sacrifice would end all my miseries.
- In this case we should merely acknowledge the sacrifice of Capt.
- Herbert Hoover tried to get Americans to sacrifice, regarding their economic struggles as the moral equivalent of war.