Sacrifices is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SACRIFICES 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 SACRIFICES

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How to use SACRIFICES in a sentence

• Of all the sacrifices which the Emperor ever made to his ambition that of his wife was the one which cost him the greatest struggle and the keenest regret.
• Your letters to the 31st of August have been received, and I have again to express to you my thanks for the sacrifices you are making for me.
• This is confirmed by the many sacrifices made merely for the sake of enjoying revenge, without any intention of making good the injury that one has suffered.
• Ten centuries ago he wore altogether a different character, but human sacrifices have always been made to propitiate him.
• The German wars of Unification also belong to the category of wars which, in spite of a thousand sacrifices, bring forth a rich harvest.
• Legion in number had been those who set their hands and hearts to greater tasks, made more improbable sacrifices, taken greater chances.
• You have been making sacrifices all your life, and your worst trials come out of your most generous sacrifices.
• Upon the fifteenth day of the month, and the six following days, there were very great sacrifices.
• Among the very few traits of amiability that Major Keene had ever displayed, were the sacrifices of personal convenience he would make for Harry Molyneux.
• In the American Revolution sacrifices were made by the men engaged in it.
• The whole pantheon of the Vedic gods, with the ceremonies and the sacrifices associated with them, passed indeed away.
• Her life was full of events, full of sacrifices in the path of God.
• A temple was constructed in a vale by the sea near Callao, wherein his worship was to be conducted without images or human sacrifices.
• Then he made his vows, prayers, and sacrifices to the Gods.
• The Duchess of Rohan, the Mayor Guiton, and the Minister Salbert, by noble sacrifices and burning words, kept the will of the besieged firm as steel.
• The people are learning to abandon human sacrifices and animal sacrifices and to come to the doctor when injured or ill.
• The sacrifices were of two kinds, as in the Jewish ritual.
• With reference to the Nartiang stones I would refer to my theory, formulated above, that they were originally connected with human sacrifices.
• By dint of efforts and sacrifices an enormous fleet was assembled for the relief of Port Arthur.
• I fear, said Cephalus, that I must go now, for I have to look after the sacrifices, and I hand over the argument to Polemarchus and the company.
• To be sure, he answered, and went away laughing to the sacrifices.
• At the next island they went ashore and offered sacrifices, and Orpheus purged them from their guilt.
• They will have faithfully fulfilled that obligation which falls to the lot of the majority of men and women, with its high rewards and painful sacrifices.
• No pen can describe what these women endured for the two or three years in which they tried to establish this principle, through such sacrifices as only a woman can understand.
• Sacrifices were offered to Heaven, the hills and rivers, ancestors, and all the spirits.
• Few men outside the ranks of the holy have worked harder or made greater sacrifices to do God service.
• The sacrifices I have made for that ungrateful man are not to be told in words.

Similar words containing SACRIFICE without suffix s

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