offer — meaning in English

English meaning

• casualty noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
• 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

offer 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).
• 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.

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.

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