word-vault/dist/data/cards/sa/sacrifice.json

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{
    "term": "sacrifice",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the fact of giving up something important or valuable to you in order to get or do something that seems more important; something that you give up in this way",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Her parents **made sacrifices** so that she could have a good education."
                },
                {
                    "text": "to make the **ultimate/supreme sacrifice** *(= to die for your country, to save a friend, etc.)*"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["big", "considerable", "enormous"],
                "verb + sacrifice": ["be", "make", "involve"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the act of offering something to a god, especially an animal that has been killed in a special way; an animal, etc. that is offered in this way",
            "sensetop": "sacrifice (to somebody)",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They offered sacrifices to the gods."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a human sacrifice *(= a person killed as a )*"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Religion and festivals"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["animal", "human", "pagan"],
                "verb + sacrifice": ["perform", "offer (something as)"],
                "preposition": ["sacrifice to"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsækrɪfaɪs/",
                "audio": "sa/sacrifice/sacrifice__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsækrɪfaɪs/",
                "audio": "sa/sacrifice/sacrifice__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French, from Latin sacrificium; related to sacrificus ‘sacrificial’, from sacer ‘holy’."
}