🇬🇧 en fr 🇫🇷

sacrifice verb

  /-faɪz/ , /ˈsækɹəˌfaɪs/ , /ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
  • (religion) To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
  • To destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (science) , to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.
  • To destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
  • (religion) To offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.
 sacrifier

sacrifice noun

  /-faɪz/ , /ˈsækɹəˌfaɪs/ , /ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
  • A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
 sacrifice
  • Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
 sacrifice, offrande

sacrificer noun

  • Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
 sacrificateur, sacrificatrice

sacrificant

sacrificateur

sacrificable

sacrifiable
self-sacrifice
auto-sacrifice, sacrifice de soi
human sacrifice
sacrifice humain
sacrifice bunt
sacrifice

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

sacrifice noun {m}

  /sa.kʁi.fis/
  • (Religion) Action par laquelle on offre certaines choses ou certaines victimes aux dieux, ou à Dieu, avec certaines cérémonies, pour rendre hommage à sa souveraine puissance
  • (Sens figuré) Abandon volontaire de quelque chose ; privation que l’on s’impose, ou qu’on accepte, pour l’amour de Dieu ou d’une personne, ou en considération de quelque chose
 sacrifice
  • (Par hyperbole) Concession que l’on accepte de faire
 sacrifice, self-sacrifice
sacrifice humain
human sacrifice
auto-sacrifice
self-sacrifice
sacrifice de soi
self-sacrifice
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