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Sacrificed

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sac⋅ri⋅fice

  [sak-ruh-fahys] noun, verb, -ficed, -fic⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
2. the person, animal, or thing so offered.
3. the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.
4. the thing so surrendered or devoted.
5. a loss incurred in selling something below its value.
6. Also called sacrifice bunt, sacrifice hit. Baseball. a bunt made when there are fewer than two players out, not resulting in a double play, that advances the base runner nearest home without an error being committed if there is an attempt to put the runner out, and that results in either the batter's being put out at first base, reaching first on an error made in the attempt for the put-out, or being safe because of an attempt to put out another runner.
–verb (used with object)
7. to make a sacrifice or offering of.
8. to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.
9. to dispose of (goods, property, etc.) regardless of profit.
10. Baseball. to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a sacrifice.
–verb (used without object)
11. Baseball. to make a sacrifice: He sacrificed with two on and none out.
12. to offer or make a sacrifice.
Origin:
1225–75; (n.) ME < OF < L sacrificium, equiv. to sacri- (comb. form of sacer holy) + -fic-, comb. form of facere to make, do 1 + -ium -ium; (v.) ME sacrifisen, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
sac⋅ri⋅fice⋅a⋅ble, adjective
sac⋅ri⋅fic⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
8. relinquish, forgo, renounce.
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sac·ri·fice   (sāk'rə-fīs')   
n.  

    1. The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person.

    2. A victim offered in this way.

    3. Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

    4. Something so forfeited.

    5. Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.

    6. Something so relinquished.

    7. A loss so sustained.

    1. Forfeiture of something highly valued for the sake of one considered to have a greater value or claim.

    2. Something so forfeited.

    3. Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.

    4. Something so relinquished.

    5. A loss so sustained.

    1. Relinquishment of something at less than its presumed value.

    2. Something so relinquished.

    3. A loss so sustained.

  4. Baseball A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly.

v.   sac·ri·ficed, sac·ri·fic·ing, sac·ri·fic·es

v.   tr.

  1. To offer as a sacrifice to a deity.

  2. To forfeit (one thing) for another thing considered to be of greater value.

  3. To sell or give away at a loss.

v.   intr.

  1. To make or offer a sacrifice.

  2. Baseball To make a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sacrificium : sacer, sacred; see sacred + facere, to make; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
sac'ri·fic'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

sacrifice  (n.)
c.1250, from O.Fr. sacrifise (12c.), from L. sacrificium, from sacrificus "performing priestly functions or sacrifices," from sacra "sacred rites" (prop. neut. pl. of sacer "sacred," see sacred) + root of facere "to do, perform" (see factitious). L. sacrificium is glossed in O.E. by ansegdniss. Sense of "something given up for the sake of another" is first recorded 1592. Baseball sense first attested 1880. The verb is first recorded c.1290.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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