transcription, транскрипция: [ sækrɪfaɪs ]
( sacrifices, sacrificing, sacrificed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you sacrifice something that is valuable or important, you give it up, usually to obtain something else for yourself or for other people.
She sacrificed family life to her career...
Kitty Aldridge has sacrificed all for her first film...
He sacrificed himself and so saved his country.
VERB : V n to/for n , V n , V pron-refl
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Sacrifice is also a noun.
She made many sacrifices to get Anita a good education...
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see also self-sacrifice
2.
To sacrifice an animal or person means to kill them in a special religious ceremony as an offering to a god.
The priest sacrificed a chicken...
VERB : V n
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Sacrifice is also a noun.
...animal sacrifices to the gods.
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