sacrifice

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act of giving up something valuable for the sake of something more important.

   Her parents made many sacrifices so that she could go to university.

2. 2
   verb

   To give up something important in order to gain or protect something else.

   He sacrificed his free time to care for his sick mother.

3. 3
   noun

   The killing of a person or animal, or the offering of an object, to a god as part of a religious rite.

   The ancient temple was used for animal sacrifice.

Common collocations

• human sacrifice Adjective + noun

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- Proto-Indo-European *-rós Proto-Indo-European *sh₂krós Proto-Italic *sakros Old Latin sacros Latin sacerder. Latin sacrum Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁k-yé-ti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin sacrificiumlbor. Old French sacrifisebor. Middle English sacrifice English sacrifice From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old…

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