Main Entry: ²sacrifice

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): sacrificed; sacrific·ing

Date: 14th century

transitive verb 1 : to offer as a sacrifice
2 : to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
3 : to sell at a loss
4 : to advance (a base runner) by means of a sacrifice hit
5 : to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experimentintransitive verb 1 : to make or perform the rites of a sacrifice
2 : to make a sacrifice hit in baseball

— sac·ri·fic·er noun