Definition for Sacrifice:

• To offer to God in worship, or to a heathen deity, a slain victim on an altar; to destroy or give up for the sake of something else; to make offerings to God on an altar.

Synonyms for Sacrifice:

• n.

  •
  • atonement,
  • penance,
  • reparation,
  • self-denial.
  •
  • discount,
  • deduction,
  • reduction.
  •
  • cost.
  •
  • forswear.
  •act (noun)
  • forfeiture.
  •fall guy (noun)
  • whipping boy.
  •loss (noun)
  • sacrificial lamb,
  • libation.
  •martyrdom (noun)
  • unselfishness,
  • self-sacrifice,
  • self-immolation.
  •oblation (noun)
  • penitence,
  • offertory,
  • burnt offering,
  • votive offering,
  • collection,
  • devotion,
  • dedication.
  •peace offering (noun)
  • Heave offering,
  • whole offering,
  • sacramental offering,
  • piacular offering,
  • sin offering.
  •price (noun)
  • penalty.
  •renunciation (noun)
  • self-abnegation.
  •rite (noun)
  • novena,
  • eucharist,
  • liturgy,
  • canon,
  • evensong,
  • marriage,
  • celebration,
  • remembrance,
  • nones,
  • communion,
  • Siddur,
  • sacrament,
  • missal,
  • vesper,
  • service,
  • rite,
  • holiday,
  • baptism,
  • ritual,
  • convocation,
  • solemnization,
  • initiation,
  • matrimony,
  • wedlock,
  • transubstantiation,
  • mass,
  • revival,
  • last rites,
  • ceremony,
  • christening,
  • confirmation,
  • observance.
  •temperance (noun)
  • teetotalism.

• v.

  •give up, let go (verb)
  • yield,
  • resign oneself to,
  • offer up,
  • suffer,
  • endure,
  • cede,
  • kiss goodbye,
  • waive,
  • spare,
  • lose.
  •kill (verb)
  • purge,
  • remove,
  • do in,
  • smite,
  • chill,
  • put to sleep,
  • dispatch,
  • hang,
  • do away with,
  • butcher,
  • liquidate,
  • massacre,
  • snuff,
  • slay,
  • ice,
  • assassinate,
  • slaughter,
  • smother,
  • asphyxiate,
  • drown,
  • suffocate,
  • strangle,
  • exterminate,
  • execute,
  • eliminate.
  •possession (verb)
  • give.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • hecatomb,
  • immolate,
  • immolation,
  • undercharge.
  •
  • renounce,
  • destruction.
  •
  • victimize,
  • toll.
  •
  • surrender.
  •deny
  • turn down,
  • forsake.
  •eschew
  • swearing off,
  • swear off.
  •kill
  • killing,
  • put to death,
  • kill.
  •lose
  • suffer loss,
  • losing.
  •relinquish
  • kiss good-bye.

Paraphrases for Sacrifice:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    self-sacrifice.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Veterans, slaughter.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    victim, offering, Culling, devotion, cull, expense, slaughter, killing, casualty.
  • Verb, base form
    cull, slaughter, compromise, forego, destroy, donate.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    Slaughtering, dedication.
  • Verb, base form
    devote.

Antonyms for Sacrifice:

• n.

  • loss
    rise, increase.

• v.

  • give up, let go
    keep, hold, win, reject, deny, fight, withhold, gain, disallow, refuse, continue.

Homophones for Sacrifice:

• scrapbook, scripps, surf fish, scraps, services, sourpuss, scrubs, scirpus, sea crawfish, sorbus, scrub oak, scarabaeus, scarface, srbija, scorpius, service, seriphus, surbase, sugar-bush, surface gauge, surpass, sour fig, Scire Facias, surface gage, surface, surffish, suckerfish, seraphic.

Hypernym for Sacrifice:

• n.

  • act
    sacrifice fly.

• v.

  • possession
    immolate.

Hyponym for Sacrifice:

• n.

  • act
    act, putout, human action, deed, human activity.
  • event
    personnel casualty, loss.
  • possession
    loss.

• v.

  • contact
    kill.
  • possession
    offer, relinquish, resign, release, sell, give up, offer up, free.