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.

Similar words containing SACRIFIC without suffix ing

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