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say it: IM-uh-layt
immolate is a verb meaning "offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction". It carries one recorded sense.
offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction
“The Aztecs immolated human victims”
“immolate the valuables at the temple”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for immolate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.