sacrifice

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ˈsækrɪfaɪs/

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• Hyphenation: sac‧ri‧fice

Noun

Singular sacrifice

Plural sacrifices

1. A sacrifice is something that a person gives up in order to help him or somebody else. A person who makes a sacrifice for a friend will do something that he might not want to do in order to help his friend.
2. A sacrifice is an offer given as a gift to a god.

   People in the Old Testament offered a lamb as a sacrifice to God for forgiveness.

Verb

Plain form sacrifice

Third-person singular sacrifices

Past tense sacrificed

Past participle sacrificed

Present participle sacrificing

1. If you sacrifice someone or something, you give them up for other things.

Related words

• sacrificial