sacrifice

1. n. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Source: opted

2. n. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation. Source: opted

3. n. Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest. Source: opted

4. n. A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value. Source: opted

5. n. To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep. Source: opted

6. n. Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering. Source: opted

7. n. To destroy; to kill. Source: opted

8. n. To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value. Source: opted

9. v. i. To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice. Source: opted

10. n. the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. Source: wordnet

11. n. personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective) Source: wordnet

12. n. a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value Source: wordnet

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