sacrificed
- 1Simple past and past participle of sacrifice.
The general sacrificed thousands of troops in a single reckless assault.
Many comforts were sacrificed to keep the small business afloat.
Note
One spelling covers two jobs: the regular past (she sacrificed her weekends) and the participle after have or be (had sacrificed, were sacrificed). The participle carries every sense of the verb, from altar offerings to the chess player's deliberately lost piece and the batter's out that moves a runner along. Whatever the loss was for usually follows with to or for: sacrificed to ambition, sacrificed for the team.
sacrificed is a form of sacrifice
sacrifice, verb: To give up or destroy something of value for the sake of something else regarded as more important. Full entry
- Forms
- sacrificesacrifices he/she/itsacrificing -ing formsacrificed past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- sacrifice → sacrificed: add -d
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