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I. noun see: do Date: 13th century an act of offering to a deity something precious, something offered in ~, 3. destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else, something given up or lost , loss , ~ hit , II. verb (-ficed; -ficing) Date: 14th century transitive verb to offer as a ~, to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end, to sell at a loss, to advance (a base runner) by means of a ~ hit, to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experiment, intransitive verb to make or perform the rites of a ~, to make a ~ hit in baseball, ~r noun