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sacrificing
transitive verb
1
: to offer as a sacrifice
2
: to suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
3
: to sell at a loss
4
: to advance (a base runner) by means of a sacrifice hit
5
: to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experiment
intransitive verb
1
: to make or perform the rites of a sacrifice
2
: to make a sacrifice hit in baseball
— sac·ri·fic·er noun
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