English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of sacrifice

sacrifice

/noun/ त्याग; यज्ञ; न्योछावर; हानि; निछावार; नुक़सान;
/verb/बलिदान करना; त्याग करना; कुरबान करना; भेंट चढ़ाना; नष्ट करना; हत्या करना; बलि देना; ; स्वार्थत्याग;

Synonym renunciation; oblation; gift; loss; waster; cost; eschew; immolate; dissipate; slay; Immolate;

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English Dictionary:

1. Sacrifice

[n.]

- The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.
- Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.
- Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.
- A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.
- To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.
- Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.
- To destroy; to kill.
- To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

2. Sacrifice

[v. i.]

- To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.