sacrificing
- 1Present participle and gerund of sacrifice.
The commander kept sacrificing fresh troops in a series of doomed assaults.
Sacrificing short-term profits, the company poured its earnings back into research.
Note
The -ing form drops the silent e of sacrifice, and one spelling does two jobs: a participle in "kept sacrificing troops" and a verbal noun in "Sacrificing sleep rarely pays." Every use of the verb carries over, from the altar to the chessboard, where a player is sacrificing a pawn to improve position. Watch the preposition: one sacrifices something for, or for the sake of, something valued more.
sacrificing 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 → sacrificing: drop the e, add -ing
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