生贄 — meaning in English

English meaning

• sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
• scapegoat noun A person blamed for a problem or failure that was not really their fault, often to protect others.
• victim noun A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, disease, or other misfortune.

Senses

生贄 is used for these senses in English:

• sacrifice A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
• scapegoat Someone unfairly blamed or punished for some failure.
• victim A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.

sacrifice — full definition

1. verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
2. verb To give up something valuable for the sake of something considered more important.
3. noun The act of giving up something valuable for a greater cause, or the thing given up.

scapegoat — full definition

1. noun A person blamed for a problem or failure that was not really their fault, often to protect others.
2. verb To unfairly blame someone for a failure.

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