Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
SACRIFICE
I. noun see: do
Date: 13th century
an act of offering to a deity something precious, something offered in sacrifice,
3. destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else, something given up or lost , loss , sacrifice hit ,
II. verb (-ficed; -ficing)
Date: 14th century
transitive verb to offer as a sacrifice, to suffer loss of, give up, re noun ce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end, to sell at a loss, to advance (a base runner) by means of a sacrifice hit, to kill (an animal) as part of a scientific experiment, intransitive verb to make or perform the rites of a sacrifice, to make a sacrifice hit in baseball, sacrificer noun