self-sacrifice
Noun
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Noun
self-sacrifice
- The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others.
- His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person.
- French: auto-sacrifice, sacrifice de soi
- German: Selbstaufopferung
- Italian: autosacrificio, abnegazione
- Portuguese: autossacrifício
- Russian: самопоже́ртвование
- Spanish: autosacrificio, abnegación
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