Sacrificing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SACRIFICING in dictionary:

VERB:
• SACRIFICE, to offer up in sacrifice, also SACRIFY
• offer or kill as a religious sacrifice
• give up (something valued) for the sake of other considerations
• advance (a base runner) by a sacrifice
• make a sacrifice bid
• deliberately allow one's opponent to win (a pawn or piece)
NOUN:
• an act of slaughtering an animal or person or surrendering a possession as an offering to a deity
• an animal, person, or object offered in the act of sacrifice
• the Eucharist regarded either (in Catholic terms) as a propitiatory offering of the body and blood of Christ or (in Protestant terms) as an act of thanksgiving.
• an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy
• a move intended to allow the opponent to win a pawn or piece, for strategic or tactical reasons.
• a bunted or fly ball which puts the batter out but allows a base runner to advance.
• a bid made in the belief that it will be less costly to be defeated in the contract than to allow the opponents to make a contract.
• Christ's offering of himself in the Crucifixion.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an act of offering to a deity something precious; the killing of a victim on an altar

Words related to SACRIFICING

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How to use SACRIFICING in a sentence

• It was a giant compelled to live in a cellar and thereby sacrificing his height.
• At first, I must admit, I was rather taken with the idea, and, indeed, one felt almost sorry for a noble nation sacrificing its feelings on the uncompromising altar of Logic.
• Later, while he was sacrificing to Fortuna, the bull escaped before being wounded, rushed out of the city, and coming to a kind of pond swam across it.
• Just as the care of her infants taught her sympathy, so the daily inculcated duty of sacrificing herself for her lord and master fostered the germs of adoration.
• But if he gains this advantage, it is by sacrificing the character of the hero.
• Similarly certain B-ites will want O and P if they can be got without sacrificing B.
• How glorious the opportunity for a man to come out and testify by sacrificing his worldly living and business! If you, Mr.
• The islanders of Crete, before sacrificing to Jupiter, had to abstain from food.
• Some villagers happened to be sacrificing a goat on a neighbouring altar, and the Eagle flew down and carried off a piece of burning flesh to her nest.
• She sat at her books half the night, being gifted, according to her own account, with a marvellous power of sacrificing sleep to any other necessity.
• And I reckon we shall not get that gold without sacrificing something.
• This was a dangerous enterprise, for the king of Taurica had a practice of sacrificing in that very temple any foreigners found in his country.
• By sacrificing Himself, however, a fresh capacity was infused into all created things.
• Witness how, in their pursuit of that which is vain and trivial, they have sacrificed, and are still sacrificing, countless lives for the sake of its establishment and promotion.
• Alike in war and in the chase, his daily discipline has been that of sacrificing other creatures to his own needs and passions.
• It is thought that Tara Dios himself comes down each time to make his demands on the Tarahumares for dancing and sacrificing.
• Little do my friends know that when I do travel it is to worship Bowani by sacrificing to her other travellers on the road.
• Obedience to ministers he regarded as sacrificing his opinions.
• In sacrificing to the sun, willows were used, but in their other sacrifices birch trees were employed.
• Many married people desire children, or more children, but feel that they can not have them without sacrificing something that they are unwilling to sacrifice.
• This character of the Cyclopians arose from the cruel custom of sacrificing strangers, whom fortune brought upon their coast.
• When he painted at his best his portraits were solid, true, and masterly, but he has been reproached with sacrificing truth to the refining process which he practised.
• That a combination of serious work and relaxation can be reconciled without sacrificing the former, has been demonstrated in this case, for the P.
• That it produces the full power of the voice without sacrificing its musical quality is being proved constantly.
• We sat there sacrificing ourselves to abstract right for five minutes.
• I have fought as hard as I could for it, thundering like Moses at Sinai, and sacrificing the golden calf.
• If they groaned loud enough and long enough they might frighten a poor countryman into sacrificing a hen, or leaving a pound of butter for them.
• We are sacrificing the future in order to provide for an excessive and discontented population in the present.
• The aim of the story is to show the vanity of expecting perfect happiness, and the folly of sacrificing present advantages for the delusive promises of the future.

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