sacrificeverb
uk/ˈsæk.rɪ.faɪs/us/ˈsæk.rə.faɪs/sacrifice verb (GIVE UP)
C1 [ T ] to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person:
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- She's had to sacrifice a lot for that relationship.
- He's the world's best tennis player but he's sacrificed everything else in his life for it.
- He has sacrificed his personal life for the sake of celebrity.
- Many women sacrifice their own ambitions to put their family first.
- It's the only bit of free time I get in the week and I'm not prepared to sacrifice it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- forwent
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- grow
- self-sacrifice
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
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sacrifice verb (KILL)
[ I or T ] to kill an animal or a person and offer them to a god or gods
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- mercy killing
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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Idiom(s)
sacrificenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˈsæk.rɪ.faɪs/us/ˈsæk.rə.faɪs/sacrifice noun [ C or U ] (GIVING UP)
C1 the act of giving up something that is valuable to you in order to help someone else:
More examples
- You have to make sacrifices if you want to achieve your ambition.
- No one raises a family without making a few sacrifices.
- It's a career that leaves you with almost no free time and that's a sacrifice I'm not prepared to make.
- She supported her husband throughout his 40-year career and at great personal sacrifice.
- We make sacrifices now to give our children a better tomorrow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- forwent
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- grow
- self-sacrifice
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
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sacrifice noun [ C or U ] (KILLING)
the act of killing an animal or person and offering them to a god or gods, or the animal, etc. that is offered:
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- mercy killing
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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