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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.
EXPANDa loss incurred in selling something below its value.
6.
COLLAPSEAlso 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.
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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; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin sacrificium, equivalent to sacri- (combining form of sacer holy) + -fic-, combining form of facere to make, do1 + -ium -ium; (v.) Middle English sacrifisen, derivative of the noun
1225–75; (noun) Middle English < Old French < Latin sacrificium, equivalent to sacri- (combining form of sacer holy) + -fic-, combining form of facere to make, do1 + -ium -ium; (v.) Middle English sacrifisen, derivative of the noun
Related forms
sac·ri·fice·a·ble, adjective
sac·ri·fic·er, noun
non·sac·ri·fice, noun
non·sac·ri·fic·ing, adjective
pre·sac·ri·fice, noun, verb, -ficed, -fic·ing.
EXPANDsu·per·sac·ri·fice, noun, verb (used with object), -ficed, -fic·ing.
un·sac·ri·fice·a·ble, adjective
un·sac·ri·ficed, adjective
un·sac·ri·fic·ing, adjective
well-sac·ri·ficed, adjective
COLLAPSESynonyms
8. relinquish, forgo, renounce.
8. relinquish, forgo, renounce.
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Word Origin & History
sacrifice
mid-13c., 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
EXPAND factitious). L. sacrificium is glossed in O.E. by ansegdniss. Sense of "something given up for the sake of another" is first recorded 1590s. Baseball sense first attested 1880. The verb is first recorded late 13c.
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