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sacrifice

(sacrifice) an out that advances the base runners

the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)

a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value; "he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice"

kill or destroy; "The animals were sacrificed after the experiment"; "The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment"

make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals

endure the loss of; "He gave his life for his children"; "I gave two sons to the war"

sell at a loss

Synonyms:

• abandon,
• abandonment,
• abjuration,
• abjure,
• altruism,
• annihilate,
• appease,
• bane,
• be bereaved of,
• bereave of life,
• bereavement,
• blood,
• bloodletting,
• bloodshed,
• braining,
• burnt offering,
• carry away,
• carry off,
• cease,
• cede,
• cession,
• chloroform,
• close out,
• collection,
• commitment,
• consecrate,
• consecration,
• convert into cash,
• cost,
• cut down,
• cut off,
• cut under,
• damage,
• dead loss,
• dealing death,
• debit,
• dedicate,
• dedication,
• default,
• denial,
• denudation,
• deprivation,
• deprive of life,
• desist,
• despoilment,
• destroy,
• destruction,
• destruction of life,
• detriment,
• devote,
• devotion,
• disgorge,
• disinterest,
• disinterestedness,
• dispatch,
• dispensation,
• dispense with,
• disposal,
• dispose of,
• disposition,
• dispossession,
• divestment,
• do away with,
• do for,
• do to death,
• do without,
• donate,
• drink offering,
• drop,
• dump,
• dumping,
• effect a sale,
• end,
• eschew,
• euthanasia,
• ex voto offering,
• execute,
• execution,
• expense,
• exterminate,
• extermination,
• finish,
• finish off,
• flow of blood,
• forbear,
• forfeit,
• forfeiture,
• forgo,
• forgoing,
• forswear,
• forswearing,
• get along without,
• get rid of,
• getting rid of,
• give,
• give away,
• give up,
• giving up,
• go astray from,
• gore,
• have done with,
• heave offering,
• hecatomb,
• holocaust,
• human sacrifice,
• humility,
• immolate,
• immolate before,
• immolation,
• incense,
• incur loss,
• infanticide,
• injury,
• job,
• kill,
• killing,
• kiss good-bye,
• lapidation,
• launch into eternity,
• lean over backwards,
• let go,
• let slip,
• letting go,
• libation,
• liquidate,
• lose,
• lose out,
• loser,
• losing,
• losing streak,
• loss,
• lynch,
• mactation,
• make a sacrifice,
• make a sale,
• make away with,
• make propitiation,
• make sacrifice to,
• market,
• martyr,
• martyrdom,
• martyrization,
• martyrize,
• merchandise,
• mercy killing,
• mislay,
• misplace,
• miss,
• modesty,
• move,
• oblation,
• offer,
• offer sacrifice,
• offer up,
• offering,
• offertory,
• part with,
• peace offering,
• perdition,
• piacular offering,
• poison,
• poisoning,
• privation,
• propitiate,
• purge,
• put away,
• put down,
• put to death,
• put to sleep,
• quitclaim,
• recant,
• recantation,
• refrain from,
• release,
• relinquish,
• relinquishment,
• remove from life,
• render up,
• renounce,
• renunciation,
• resell,
• resign,
• resignation,
• retail,
• retract,
• retraction,
• riddance,
• ritual killing,
• ritual murder,
• robbery,
• ruin,
• sacramental offering,
• scapegoat,
• self-abasement,
• self-abnegation,
• self-denial,
• self-devotion,
• self-effacement,
• self-forgetfulness,
• self-immolation,
• self-neglect,
• self-neglectfulness,
• self-renouncement,
• self-sacrifice,
• self-subjection,
• selflessness,
• sell,
• sell off,
• sell on consignment,
• sell out,
• sell over,
• sell retail,
• sell short,
• sell up,
• sell wholesale,
• shooting,
• slaughter,
• slay,
• slaying,
• spare,
• spoliation,
• starve,
• stoning,
• stop,
• stripping,
• suffer loss,
• surrender,
• suttee,
• sutteeism,
• swear off,
• swearing off,
• take life,
• take off,
• taking away,
• taking of life,
• thank offering,
• throw up,
• total loss,
• turn into money,
• turn over,
• unacquisitiveness,
• undercut,
• undergo privation,
• undersell,
• unload,
• unpossessiveness,
• unselfishness,
• vacate,
• victimize,
• votive offering,
• waive,
• wander from,
• whole offering,
• wholesale,
• yield,
• yielding