sacrifice

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Singular sacrifice

Plural sacrifices

1. A sacrifice is something that a person gives up in order to help him or somebody else. A person who makes a sacrifice for a friend will do something that he might not want to do in order to help his friend.

   He sacrificed his time using the computer to help his sister with her homework.

2. A sacrifice is a offer given as a gift to a god.

   People in the Old Testament offered a lamb as a sacrifice to God for forgiveness.

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Plain form sacrifice

Third-person singular sacrifices

Past tense sacrificed

Past participle sacrificed

Present participle sacrificing

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