immolate
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
immolate (immolates, present participle immolating; past and past participle immolated)
- To kill as a sacrifice.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
- A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
- 1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
- To destroy, especially by fire.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:
- She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 19:
- French: immoler, sacrifier
- German: opfern
- Italian: immolare, sacrificare
- Portuguese: sacrificar, imolar
- Russian: соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние
- Spanish: inmolar, sacrificar
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