sacrificer
noun
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- Someone who sacrifices, one who makes a sacrifice.
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sacrificateur,
sacrificatrice
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sacrifice
verb
/-faɪz/
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/ˈsækɹəˌfaɪs/
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/ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
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- (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.
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sacrifier
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sacrifice
noun
/-faɪz/
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/ˈsækɹəˌfaɪs/
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/ˈsækɹɪfaɪs/
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- A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
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sacrifice
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- 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.
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sacrifice,
offrande
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