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noun 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 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., verb VERB + SACRIFICE be obliged to, have to | be prepared to, be willing to She was prepared to sacrifice having a family in order to pursue her career. PREP. for soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country PHRASES sacrifice sth for the sake of sth Comfort has been sacrificed for the sake of improved performance.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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Phrase(s): sacrifice someone or something to someone or something
to make an offering of or give up someone or something to someone or some power. • The high priest prepared to sacrifice the prisoner to the gods. • I sacrificed a lot of money to a fancy lifestyle.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs