0 present participle of sacrifice
1 to give up something that is valuable to you in order to help another person:
Many women sacrifice interesting careers for their families.
2 to kill an animal or a person and offer them to a god or gods
She's had to sacrifice a lot for that relationship.
He's the world's best tennis player but he's sacrificed everything else in his life for it.
He has sacrificed his personal life for the sake of celebrity.
Many women sacrifice their own ambitions to put their family first.
It's the only bit of free time I get in the week and I'm not prepared to sacrifice it.
This is an instance of sacrificing modeling power to ensure that the overall system is realized exactly.
Moreover, this high-cost sugar was only obtained by sacrificing a larger tonnage, with a lower unit cost, in the next harvest.
In the manufacturing domain, shop floor operators prefer to have a small amount of highly intuitive rules by sacrificing a small loss in predictive accuracy.
