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        "ˈsækrəˌfaɪs"
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        "From Middle English sacrificen (verb) and sacrifice (noun), from Old French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificō (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faciō (“do, make”)."
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              "mean": "(transitive, intransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.\nVenison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.\n1960 February,  R. C. Riley,  “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in  Trains Illustrated, page 99:To do the job thoroughly sentiment must be ignored and it seems inevitable that the famous Great Hall and the Doric Arch will have to be sacrificed to progress.\n1964,  Holland-Dozier-Holland (lyrics and music),  “Baby Don't You Do It”, performed by Marvin Gaye:Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.\n2010,  BioWare,  Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Haestrom:Tali: The Admiralty Board believed the information here was worth sacrificing all our lives for. I have to believe that they know what's best.\n“God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)\n1718,  Mat Prior,  “Solomon on the Vanity of the World. A Poem in Three Books.”, in  Poems on Several Occasions, London:    Jacob Tonson , and John Barber , →OCLC, (please specify the page):\nCondemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.\n1857, George Eliot, s:Scenes of Clerical Life\nThe Baronet had sacrificed a large sum    for the sake of    making this boy his heir."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.\n1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged\nIf you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is."
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              "mean": "(transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board."
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              "mean": "(transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out."
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            {
              "mean": "(dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value."
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            {
              "mean": "To destroy; to kill."
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              "mean": "(medicine) To kill a test animal for autopsy."
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              "mean": "The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.\n1671,  John Milton,  “Samson Agonistes, ”, in  Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London:    J. M for John Starkey , →OCLC, line 322, page 78:Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, / To Dagon."
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              "mean": "The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.\nthe sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer",
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              "mean": "Something sacrificed.\n1667,  John Milton,  “Book I”, in  Paradise Lost. , London:    , , →OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 392–393:Firſt Moloch, horrid King beſmear'd with blood / Of human ſacrifice, and parents tears,"
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              "mean": "A loss of profit."
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              "mean": "(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value."
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