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Definition of sacrificed:

(n) : (figurative) 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.
(n) : (religion) 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 deity.
(n) : (religion) A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1, sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
(n) : (religion) (figurative) The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
(n) : (religion) (Christianity, specifically) Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
(n) : (religion) (Christianity, specifically) (by extension) 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 offering.
Definition of sacrificed:

(n) : (figurative) 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.
(n) : (religion) 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 deity.
(n) : (religion) A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1, sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
(n) : (religion) (figurative) The offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
(n) : (religion) (Christianity, specifically) Jesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
(n) : (religion) (Christianity, specifically) (by extension) 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 offering.
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