Synonyms of the word sacrifice


SACRIFICEACT - FORFEIT - FORFEITURE - FREE - GIVE - KILL - KILLING - LOSS - OFFER - PUTOUT - RELEASE - RELINQUISH - RESIGN - SELL

sacrifice

  • v. (transitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
  • v. (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of…
  • v. (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
  • v. (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded,…
  • v. (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
  • v. To destroy; to kill.
  • n. The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.
  • n. Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object…
  • n. Something sacrificed.
  • n. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the…
  • n. A loss of profit.
  • n. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

act

  • n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
  • n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  • n. The process of doing something.
  • n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  • n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
  • n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
  • n. (countable) Any organized activity.
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
  • n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
  • n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  • v. (intransitive) To do something.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
  • v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
  • v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  • v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
  • v. (transitive) To play (a role).
  • v. (transitive) To feign.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

forfeit

  • n. A penalty for or consequence of a misdemeanor.
  • n. A thing forfeited; that which is taken from somebody in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is…
  • n. Something deposited and redeemable by a sportive fine as part of a game.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Injury; wrong; mischief.
  • v. To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance.
  • v. To lose a contest, game, match, or other form of competition by voluntary withdrawal, by failing to attend…
  • v. To be guilty of a misdeed; to be criminal; to transgress.
  • v. To fail to keep an obligation.
  • adj. Lost or alienated for an offense or crime; liable to penal seizure.

forfeiture

  • n. (law) A legal action whereby a person loses all interest in the forfeit property.
  • n. (law) The loss of forfeit property.
  • n. (law) The property lost as a forfeit.
  • n. Any loss occasioned by one's own actions.

free

  • adj. (social) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Obtainable without any payment.
  • adj. (abstract) Unconstrained.
  • adj. (physical) Unconstrained.
  • adj. Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  • adj. (dated) Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  • adj. (dated) Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted…
  • adj. (Britain, law, obsolete) Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
  • adj. (law) Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
  • adv. Without needing to pay.
  • adv. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.
  • v. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or…
  • n. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
  • n. free transfer.
  • n. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts…

give

  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or…
  • v. (transitive, may take two objects) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To yield slightly when a force is applied.
  • v. (intransitive) To collapse under pressure or force.
  • v. (transitive) To provide, as, a service or a broadcast.
  • v. (intransitive) To lead (onto or into).
  • v. (transitive, dated) To provide a view of.
  • v. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to yield.
  • v. To cause; to make; used with the infinitive.
  • v. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
  • v. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
  • v. To communicate or announce (advice, tidings, etc.); to pronounce or utter (an opinion, a judgment, a shout,…
  • v. (dated) To grant power or permission to; to allow.
  • v. (reflexive) To devote or apply (oneself).
  • v. (obsolete) To become soft or moist.
  • v. (obsolete) To shed tears; to weep.
  • v. (obsolete) To have a misgiving.
  • v. To be going on, to be occurring.
  • n. (uncountable) The amount of bending that something undergoes when a force is applied to it.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

killing

  • v. present participle of kill.
  • adj. That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
  • adj. Devastatingly attractive.
  • adj. That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
  • n. An instance of someone being killed.
  • n. (informal) A large amount of money.

loss

  • n. an instance of losing, such as a defeat.
  • n. The result of an alteration in a function or characteristic of the body, or of its previous integrity.
  • n. the hurtful condition of having lost something or someone, particularly in death.
  • n. (in the plural) casualties, especially physically eliminated victims of violent conflict.
  • n. (financial) the sum an entity loses on balance.
  • n. destruction, ruin.
  • n. (engineering) electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
  • v. (colloquial) Alternative spelling of lost.

offer

  • n. A proposal that has been made.
  • n. Something put forth, bid, proffered or tendered.
  • n. (law) An invitation to enter into a binding contract communicated to another party which contains terms…
  • v. (transitive) To present (something) to God as a gesture of worship, or for a sacrifice.
  • v. (transitive) To place (something) in a position where it can be added to an existing mechanical assembly.
  • v. (intransitive) To propose or express one's willingness (to do something).
  • v. (transitive) To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest.
  • v. (transitive) To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down.
  • v. (transitive) To bid, as a price, reward, or wages.
  • v. (intransitive) To happen, to present itself.
  • v. (obsolete) To make an attempt; typically used with at.
  • v. (transitive) To put in opposition to; to manifest in an offensive way; to threaten.
  • n. (used in combinations from phrasal verbs) agent noun of off.

putout

  • n. (baseball) A play in which a batter is retired.

release

  • n. The event of setting (someone or something) free (e.g. hostages, slaves, prisoners, caged animals, hooked…
  • n. (software) The distribution of an initial or new and upgraded version of a computer software product;…
  • n. Anything recently released or made available (as for sale).
  • n. That which is released, untied or let go.
  • n. (biochemistry) The process by which a chemical substance is set free.
  • n. (phonetics, sound synthesis) The act or manner of ending a sound.
  • n. (railways, historical) In the block system, a printed card conveying information and instructions to be…
  • n. A device adapted to hold or release a device or mechanism as required.
  • v. To let go (of); to cease to hold or contain.
  • v. To make available to the public.
  • v. To free or liberate; to set free.
  • v. To discharge.
  • v. (telephony) (of a call) To hang up.
  • v. (law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying…
  • v. To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of.
  • v. (soccer) To set up; to provide with a goal-scoring opportunity.
  • v. (biochemistry) To set free a chemical substance.
  • v. (transitive) To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

relinquish

  • v. (transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.
  • v. (transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.
  • v. (transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.
  • v. (transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

resign

  • v. (transitive) To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position).
  • v. (transitive or intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.
  • v. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign.

sell

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money.
  • v. (ergative) To be sold.
  • v. To promote a product or service.
  • v. To promote a particular viewpoint.
  • v. (slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
  • v. (professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate…
  • n. An act of selling.
  • n. An easy task.
  • n. (colloquial, dated) An imposition, a cheat; a hoax.
  • n. (obsolete) A seat or stool.
  • n. (archaic) A saddle.
  • n. (regional, obsolete) A rope (usually for tying up cattle, but can also mean any sort of rope).

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