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Opfer — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • casualty noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
  • homicide noun The killing of one person by another, whether it was planned or accidental.
  • immolation noun The act of offering someone or something as a sacrifice, or the condition of having been so sacrificed.
  • kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
  • offering noun Something given, presented, or put up for consideration, especially as a gift, contribution, or for sale.
  • sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
  • victim noun A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, disease, or other misfortune.

Senses

Opfer is used for these senses in English:

  • casualty (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
  • homicide (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
  • immolation That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
  • kill The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • offering That which has been offered; a sacrifice.
  • sacrifice A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.

casualty — full definition

  1. noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
  2. noun A person who has been hurt or killed in an accident or through violence.
  3. noun A person who has died, rather than just been injured, in an accident or through violence; a fatality.
  4. noun A member of the armed forces who becomes unable to serve, for reasons such as death, injury, illness, being captured or deserting.

homicide — full definition

  1. noun The killing of one person by another, whether it was planned or accidental.
  2. noun The police division that investigates killings.
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