sacrifice
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
Types & categories
- human action hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
endure the loss of
He gave his life for his children
Types & categories
- relinquish hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
Types & categories
- personnel casualty hypernym
Sense 4 verb
kill or destroy
The animals were sacrificed after the experiment
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- ritual killing derivation
Sense 5 noun
a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice
Types & categories
- loss hypernym
Related & opposite
- sacrifice derivation
Sense 6 verb
sell at a loss
Types & categories
- sell hypernym
Related & opposite
- sacrifice derivation
Sense 7 noun
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
- hecatomb hyponym
- immolation hyponym
Related & opposite
- sacrifice derivation
- sacrifice derivation
- sacrificial derivation
- animal domain topic
Sense 8 verb
make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- ritual killing derivation
- sacrificer derivation
Sense 9 noun
(baseball) an out that advances the base runners
Types & categories
- putout hypernym
- sacrifice fly hyponym
Related & opposite
- baseball domain topic
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | forfeit |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | human action |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | devote |
| 2 | verb group | Related & opposite | dedicate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | relinquish |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | personnel casualty |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | ritual killing |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | loss |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | sell |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrifice |
| 7 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrificial |
| 7 | domain topic | Related & opposite | animal |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | hecatomb |
| 7 | hyponym | Types & categories | immolation |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | ritual killing |
| 8 | derivation | Related & opposite | sacrificer |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | offer up |
| 8 | hyponym | Types & categories | immolate |
| 9 | domain topic | Related & opposite | baseball |
| 9 | hypernym | Types & categories | putout |
| 9 | hyponym | Types & categories | sacrifice fly |