noun
plural -fices
the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone [count]
an act of killing a person or animal in a religious ceremony as an offering to please a god [count]
[count] :a person or animal that is killed in a sacrifice
[count] baseball :sacrifice bunt
verb
-fices; -ficed; -ficing
to give up (something that you want to keep) especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone [+ obj]
[+ obj] :to kill (a person or animal) in a religious ceremony as an offering to please a god
baseball
[no obj] :to make a sacrifice bunt
[+ obj] :to cause (a base runner) to go to the next base by making a sacrifice bunt - usually used as (be) sacrificed