Slaughter vs Sacrifice - What's the difference?

slaughter | sacrifice |

As a proper noun slaughter

is .

As a verb sacrifice is

to offer (something) as a gift to a deity.

As a noun sacrifice is

the offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.

slaughter

English

(wikipedia slaughter)

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(-)

(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).

A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.

* Milton

on war and mutual slaughter bent

A rout or decisive defeat.

Derived terms

* kosher slaughter * lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * manslaughter * ritual slaughter * slaughterer * slaughterhouse * slaughterman * slaughterous

Verb

(en verb)

To butcher animals, generally for food

To massacre people in large numbers

To kill in a particularly brutal manner

Anagrams

* English transitive verbs

sacrifice

English

(wikipedia sacrifice)

Verb

(sacrific)

To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.

To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility to gain something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.

* “Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.” - From the song Baby Don’t You Do It by Marvin Gaye

* “God sacrificed His only-begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16).

* Prior

Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.

* G. Eliot

The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum making this boy his heir.

To trade (a value of higher worth) for one of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more such as an ally or business relationship or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.

* (Ayn Rand), Atlas Shrugged

If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice ; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.

(chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.

(baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be caught or fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.

To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.

To destroy; to kill.

(Johnson)

Synonyms

* (sell without profit) sell at a loss

Derived terms

* sacrificial

Noun

(en noun)

The offering of anything to a god; consecratory rite.

* Milton

Great pomp, and sacrifice , and praises loud, / To Dagon.

Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing.

the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer

Something sacrificed.

* Milton

Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood / Of human sacrifice .

(baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out in order that runners can advance around the bases.

A loss of profit.

(slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.