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say it: SA-kruh-fahys
sacrifice is a noun and verb meaning "the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.". It carries 9 recorded senses.
the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
a loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value
“he had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice”
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
animal
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 sacrifice 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.