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Immolate

/ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/

To kill as a sacrifice.

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📖 Definitions of "Immolate"

verb

1
To kill as a sacrifice.
2
To destroy, especially by fire.

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Word	Definition
sacrificenoun	(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.
killverb	(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
victimateverb	(obsolete) To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.
sacrifyverb	Obsolete form of sacrifice. [(transitive) (religion) To offer (a human being or an animal, or an object) to a deity.]
eliminateverb	(transitive) To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
extinguishverb	(transitive) To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.
cremateverb	(transitive) To incinerate a dead body (as an alternative to burial).
kill offverb	(transitive) To eliminate, or make extinct.
do to deathverb	Of a trope, joke, topic, idea, etc, to use so often that it becomes trite.
mortifyverb	(transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
liquidateverb	(transitive) (figurative) To settle the financial affairs of (a corporation, partnership, or other business) with the aim of ceasing operations, by determining liabilities, using assets to pay debts, and apportioning the remaining assets if any; to wind up.
put to deathverb	To kill as punishment for capital crimes; to execute.
removeverb	(transitive) To delete.
takeverb	(transitive) To get into one's hands, possession, or control, with or without force.
offer upverb	(transitive, idiomatic) To present.
suffocateverb	(ergative) To suffer, or cause someone to suffer, from severely reduced oxygen intake to the body.
slayverb	(ambitransitive, chiefly African-American Vernacular and LGBTQ slang) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
annihilateverb	To reduce to nothing, to destroy, to eradicate.
incinerateverb	(transitive) To destroy by burning.
do away withverb	(transitive, idiomatic, informal) To abolish; to put an end to; to eliminate.