sacrifice
/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/
Opfer
- Plural
- sacrifices
Bedeutungen
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The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose
We need to make sacrifices.
Wir müssen Opfer bringen.
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They made many sacrifices to get their own house.
Sie erbrachten viele Opfer, um ein eigenes Haus zu erwerben.
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Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deityselten
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A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deityselten
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The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deityselten
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Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankindselten
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The rite of Holy Communion or the Mass, regarded as (Protestantism) an offering of thanksgiving to God for Christ's crucifixion, or (Roman Catholicism) a perpetual re-presentation of Christ's sacrificial offeringselten
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In full sacrifice bid: a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, that a player makes in the hope that they will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contractselten
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A monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus soldselten
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An act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the gameselten