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auka — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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

auka 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.

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.

victim — full definition

  1. noun A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, disease, or other misfortune.
  2. noun A living creature that is sacrificed, especially in a religious ritual.

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