sacrifice : Idioms & Phrases

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Burnt sacrifice

  • . See Burnt offering, under Burnt.
Webster 1913

feast of sacrifice

  • noun the 10th day of Dhu'l-Hijja; all Muslims attend a service in the mosques and those who are not pilgrims perform a ritual slaughter of a sheep (commemorating God's ransom of Abraham's son from sacrifice) and give at least a third of the meat to charity
    Id al-Adha.
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sacrifice fly

  • noun a sacrifice made by hitting a long fly ball
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Sacrifice hit

  • (Baseball), in batting, a hit of such a kind that the batter loses his chance of tallying, but enables one or more who are on bases to get home or gain a base.
Webster 1913

sacrifice operation

  • noun killing or injuring others while annihilating yourself; usually accomplished with a bomb
    suicide mission; martyr operation.
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self-sacrifice

  • noun acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
    selflessness.
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Self`-sac"ri*fice noun
Definitions
  1. The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.
Webster 1913

self-sacrificing

  • adjective satellite willing to deprive yourself
    self-giving; self-denying.
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Self`-sac"ri*fi`cing adjective
Definitions
  1. Yielding up one's own interest, ffeelings, etc; sacrificing one's self.
Webster 1913

Unbloody sacrifice

  • . (a) A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.
Webster 1913