же́ртва — meaning in English
zhertva
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English meaning
- casualty noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
- 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.
- prey noun An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
- sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
- toll noun A fee charged for using a road, bridge, or similar route.
- victim noun A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, disease, or other misfortune.
Senses
же́ртва 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).
- immolation That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
- kill The result of killing; that which has been killed.
- prey (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
- sacrifice A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
- toll Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- victim One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
- victim One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.
casualty — full definition
- noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
- noun A person who has been hurt or killed in an accident or through violence.
- noun A person who has died, rather than just been injured, in an accident or through violence; a fatality.
- noun A member of the armed forces who becomes unable to serve, for reasons such as death, injury, illness, being captured or deserting.
immolation — full definition
- noun The act of offering someone or something as a sacrifice, or the condition of having been so sacrificed.
- noun A person, animal or thing offered up and killed in this way.
- noun The act of setting fire to a person on purpose, to harm or kill them.
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