(~s, sacrificing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you ~ something that is valuable or important, you give it up, usually to obtain something else for yourself or for other people.
She ~d family life to her career...
Kitty Aldridge has ~d all for her first film...
He ~d 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 ~s to get Anita a good education...
N-VAR
see also self-~
2.
To ~ an animal or person means to kill them in a special religious ceremony as an offering to a god.
The priest ~d a chicken...
VERB: V n
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Sacrifice is also a noun.
...animal ~s to the gods.
N-COUNT