OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7923

sacrifice

/ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sacrificio
A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1, sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 7924

sacrifice

/ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sacrificar
To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
Deuce take lady S⁠⸺; and if I know D⁠⸺⁠y, he is a rawboned faced fellow, not handsome, nor visibly so young as you say: she sacrifices two thousand pounds a year, and keeps only si…
Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.