Sacrifice n. : The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite.

Sacrifice n. : Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victim, or an offering of any kind, laid upon an altar, or otherwise presented in the way of religious thanksgiving, atonement, or conciliation.

Sacrifice n. : Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest.

Sacrifice n. : A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrifice n. : To make an offering of; to consecrate or present to a divinity by way of expiation or propitiation, or as a token acknowledgment or thanksgiving; to immolate on the altar of God, in order to atone for sin, to procure favor, or to express thankfulness; as, to sacrifice an ox or a sheep.

Sacrifice n. : Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering.

Sacrifice n. : To destroy; to kill.

Sacrifice n. : To sell at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Sacrifice v. i. : To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.

Example:
How is love and Sacrifice represented in Pride and Prejudice?

Taxonomy
sacrifice, God, Human sacrifice, Animal sacrifice, Christ, suffering, offerings, human sacrifices, body, the cross, the Redemption, Self-sacrifice, the Mass, priest, prayers, the practice, lamb, bread and wine.

Defination from the web:
sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome ... Sacrifice (from a Middle English verb meaning "to make sacred", from Old French, from Latin sacrificium: sacr, ...