sacrifice noun
1 giving sth up
ADJ. considerable, enormous, great, heavy, real | financial, personal | heroic | supreme, ultimate Soldiers who die for their country have made the supreme sacrifice.
VERB + SACRIFICE make
2 part of a ceremony
ADJ. animal, human | religious, ritual | blood | pagan
VERB + SACRIFICE perform | offer (sth as)
PREP. ~ to Food and wine were offered as sacrifices to the gods.