sacrifice
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Sense: Noun: offering to a deity
Synonyms:
offering Collocations, tribute, oblation, hecatomb, immolation, sacrificial offering, sacramental offering, animal sacrifice, human sacrifice, ritual sacrifice, ritual killing, slaughter Collocations, killing, sacrificial lamb, act of worship, atonement, sacrifice of atonement, penance, ritual, martyrdom
Sense: Noun: loss
Synonyms:
loss Collocations, surrender Collocations, surrendering, giving up, relinquishment, forfeiture, yielding, personal sacrifice, wrench Collocations, dead loss, denial Collocations, self-sacrifice, self-immolation, self-denial, abdication, privation, inconvenience Collocations
Sense: Noun: baseball play
Synonyms:
sacrifice bunt, sacrifice hit, fielder's choice, noble deed, sacrifice fly
Sense: Noun: reduction in pay or payment
Synonyms:
pay cut, reduction Collocations, reduction in pay, deduction, cut Collocations, monetary sacrifice, salary sacrifice, loss Collocations, financial loss, financial hit, hit Collocations , discount Collocations, money off
Sense: Verb: offer to a deity
Synonyms:
offer Collocations, offer up, immolate, make an offering of, offer sth in tribute, offer sth in atonement, offer sth as atonement, lay sth on the altar, lay sth at the altar, slaughter Collocations, kill Collocations, slit the throat of, martyrize, martyrise
Sense: Verb: give up
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give up, surrender Collocations, forfeit Collocations, forgo, lay down, lose Collocations, renounce, relinquish Collocations, abdicate, give away, abandon Collocations, cede, yield Collocations, suffer the loss of, endure the loss of
Sense: Verb: sell at a loss
Synonyms:
sell at a loss, sell at a discount, mark down, incur a loss on, make a loss on, discount Collocations, sell low