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sacrifice


sacrifice - noun

  • the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
  • personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
  • a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
  • the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
  • (baseball) an out that advances the base runners

    • sacrifice - verb

    • endure the loss of
    • kill or destroy
    • sell at a loss
    • make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

    sacrifice - thesaurus

    forfeit   forfeiture   give  


    View spelling list Words ending in -ce and learn about the word sacrifice in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 20. Soft c: ce, ci, cy.

    Scrabble score for sacrifice

    s is 1 a is 1 c is 3 r is 1 i is 1 f is 4 i is 1 c is 3 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 16

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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