The act of offering something to a deity in propitiation or homage, especially the ritual slaughter of an animal or a person, A victim offered in this way, Baseball A sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly, intransitive verb_ To offer as a sacrifice to a deity, To kill (an animal) for purposes of scientific research or experimentation, To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice, transitive verb_ To destroy; to kill, Hence, to destroy, surrender, or suffer to be lost, for the sake of obtaining something; to give up in favor of a higher or more imperative object or duty; to devote, with loss or suffering, To offer (something) as a gift to a deity, verb_ endure the loss of, make a sacrifice of; in religious rituals, kill or destroy

In ancient Egyptian mythology, a being's soul or personality, represented as a bird-headed figure, which survives after death but must be sustained with offerings of food, verb intransitive_ (obsolete) To kiss

Plural form of offering

A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations, a book or pamphlet containing an enumeration of things,