ofiara — meaning in English
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English meaning
- casualty noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
- 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
ofiara 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).
- kill The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- lame duck (informal, transitive, intransitive) To behave in the manner of a lame duck.
- sacrifice The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else regarded as more urgent or valuable; also, the thing destroyed or surrendered for this purpose.
- victim A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
casualty — full definition
- noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
- noun A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
- noun Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
- noun A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
kill — full definition
- verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
- verb To stop, switch off, or put an end to something completely.
- verb To cause severe pain, exhaustion, or distress — often used informally and not literally.
- noun An act of killing, or the animal or target that has been killed.