different between sacrifice vs injury

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sacrifice, from Latin sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrific? (“make or offer a sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faci? (“do, make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæk??fa?s/
• Hyphenation: sac?ri?fice

Verb

sacrifice (third-person singular simple present sacrifices, present participle sacrificing, simple past and past participle sacrificed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
2. (transitive) To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
   • 1964, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Baby Don’t You Do It (Marvin Gaye)

     Don’t you break my heart / ’Cause I sacrifice to make you happy.

   • “God sacrificed His only begotten Son, so that all people might have eternal life.” (a paraphrase of John 3:16)
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World

     Condemned to sacrifice his childish years / To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears.

   • 1857, George Eliot, s:Scenes of Clerical Life

     The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum […] for the sake of […] making this boy his heir.

3. (transitive) To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
   • 1957, Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

     If you exchange a penny for a dollar, it is not a sacrifice; if you exchange a dollar for a penny, it is.

4. (transitive, chess) To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
5. (transitive, baseball) To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
6. (dated, tradesmen's slang) To sell at a price less than the cost or actual value.
7. To destroy; to kill.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (to offer to a deity): Molochize
• (to sell without profit): sell at a loss

Derived terms

• sacrificial

Translations

Noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

1. The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
2. The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.

   the sacrifice of one's spare time in order to volunteer

   1. (baseball) A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
3. Something sacrificed.
4. A loss of profit.
5. (slang, dated) A sale at a price less than the cost or the actual value.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sacrificium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa.k?i.fis/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

sacrifice m (plural sacrifices)

1. sacrifice

Related terms

• sacrificiel
• sacrifier

Further reading

• “sacrifice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Adjective

sacrifice

1. vocative masculine singular of sacrificus

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sa?krifit??e]

Verb

sacrifice

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of sacrifica
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of sacrifica

English

Etymology

From Middle English injurie, from Anglo-Norman injurie, from Latin ini?ria (“injustice; wrong; offense”), from in- (“not”) + i?s, i?ris (“right, law”). Doublet of injuria.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n.d??.?i/, /??n.d??i/

Noun

injury (countable and uncountable, plural injuries)

1. Damage to the body of a human or animal.

   The passenger sustained a severe injury in the car accident.

2. The violation of a person's reputation, rights, property, or interests.

   Slander is an injury to the character.

3. (archaic) Injustice.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:injury

Related terms

• injure
• injurious

Translations

See also

• damage
• detriment
• evil
• harm
• hurt
• impairment
• injustice
• loss
• mischief
• wrong

Verb

injury (third-person singular simple present injuries, present participle injurying, simple past and past participle injuried)

1. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.
   • II.12:

     The best of us doth not so much feare to wrong him, as he doth to injurie his neighbour, his kinsman, or his master.

Further reading

• injury in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• injury in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Ry?jin

Middle English

Noun

injury

1. Alternative form of injurie