martyrnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmɑː.tər/us/ˈmɑːr.t̬ɚ/a person who suffers very much or is killed because of their religious or political beliefs, and is often admired because of it:
a Christian/Islamic/religious martyr
She fought against racism all her life and died a martyr to the cause.
disapproving someone who tries to get sympathy from others when he or she has a problem or too much work, usually when that person caused the problem or chose to do the work himself or herself:
She offers to do extra work, then plays the martyr!
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Religious people: followers of religious groups
- Adventist
- Anglican
- animism
- Baptist
- born-again
- Calvinist
- get religion idiom
- guru
- Hare Krishna
- Hindu
- hot-gospeller
- nonconformist
- pantheism
- papist
- Parsi
- puritan
- puritan
- televangelism
- yogi
- Zionism
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Unpleasant people in general
Idiom(s)
be a martyr to sth
martyrverb [ T often passive ]
uk/ˈmɑː.tər/us/ˈmɑːr.t̬ɚ/to kill someone because of their religious or political beliefs
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Murder & attempted murder
- assassinate
- assassination
- attempt
- blow sb away
- blow sb's brains out idiom
- bump
- dispatch
- lynch
- lynch law
- manslaughter
- martyred
- mass murder
- necklace
- poison
- slain
- slay
- slaying
- slew 1
- snuff sb out
- throttle
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