offer — meaning in English

English meaning

• casualty noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a 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 Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
2. noun A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
3. noun Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
4. noun A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).

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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