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SACRIFICED

10 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 11 pts
Big 11 pts
Super Big 20 pts

SACRIFICED is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.

SACRIFICED root SACRIFICE-d

Word family

SACRIFICE 11 SACRIFICES-s 11 SACRIFICING 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableOriginally, 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.
  2. countableuncountableA human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see etymology 1 sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
  3. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe offering of devotion, penitence, prayer, thanksgiving, etc., to a deity.
  4. countablespecificallyuncountableJesus Christ's voluntary offering of himself to God the Father to be crucified as atonement for the sins of humankind.
  5. broadlycountablespecificallyuncountableThe 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.
  6. countablefigurativelyuncountableThe 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.
    • the sacrifice of one’s spare time in order to volunteer
  7. abbreviationcountableellipsisfigurativelyuncountableEllipsis of sacrifice bunt or sacrifice hit (“a play in which the batter intentionally hits the ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance at the cost of an out to advance one or more runners”).
  8. countablefigurativelyuncountableIn 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 contract.
  9. countabledatedfigurativelyslanguncountableA monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold.
  10. countablefigurativelyuncountableAn act of intentionally allowing one's piece to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
verb
  1. transitiveTo offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.
  2. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveTo destroy or kill (a human being or an animal); specifically (sciences), to kill (an animal) for a scientific experiment or test.
  3. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveTo destroy or surrender (something) for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable.
    • Venison has many advantages over meat from factory farms, although it still requires a hunter to sacrifice the life of a deer.
  4. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveOf a batter: to advance (one or more runners on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out but with insufficient time to put the runner(s) out.
  5. broadlydatedfigurativelyslangtransitiveTo sell (something) at less than its value, thus incurring a monetary loss.
  6. broadlyfigurativelytransitiveTo intentionally allow (a piece) to be captured by the opponent in order to improve one's position in the game.
  7. intransitiveTo offer a human being or an animal, or an object, to a deity.
  8. broadlyfigurativelyintransitiveOf a batter: to bat the ball so that it can be fielded, placing the batter out but allowing one or more runners on base to advance.
  9. broadlyfigurativelyintransitiveTo make a bid of a contract which is unlikely to be fulfilled, in the hope that that the player will incur fewer penalty points than the points likely to be gained by opponents in making their contract.
  10. broadlyfigurativelyintransitiveTo celebrate Holy Communion or Mass.