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Definition of immolate in English: immolateverb ˈɪməleɪtˈɪməˌleɪt [with object]Kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning. 宰杀（尤指通过焚烧）…作祭品，将…供为祭品 Chinese kings would immolate vast numbers of animals Example sentencesExamples - Equally appalling was the story of Raja (name changed), who witnessed his mother immolating herself in front of him.
- In the legend, the burden of hierarchical corruption is carried by the anathema hurled by the wives immolating themselves, and it culminates in a fatal robe of honour.
- But today we do so without risk of being immolated, and with the newfound knowledge that life is hardy, and that the habitable zone may be as large as the universe itself.
- No other country in Europe immolates cars with the gusto and single-minded efficiency of France.
- Sir, the 24th Shock Army has been immolated by an advance air attack.
- There was one young couple who, in the process of being immolated, died embracing one another.
- In a sense, art was for Kafka a means of immolating the self.
- In a sense, it was her job to eschew the great literary career that most of their friends thought she had in her, immolating herself to affirm her husband's greater genius, and to justify all the sacrifices they had made in its name.
- A man immolates himself in front of the most expensive Parliament in the world - just a few yards away from here - and not a word from the writers.
- Madri immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
- To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
- If you were older than 10 at the time, you remember iconic images of the conflict: a naked little girl fleeing a napalm attack; a police chief executing a suspect at point-blank range; a Buddhist monk immolating himself in protest.
- The slightest damage done to their reputation may at times lead to drastic consequences like fans immolating themselves.
- In the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that.
- For just as he is still daily immolated in a mystical manner whilst we show forth his death upon the altar, so also does he seem to be newly born whilst we annually commemorate his nativity.
- During the Vietnam War, Buddhist monks were active in efforts to bring hostilities to a close, and many of them immolated themselves publicly to protest the war.
- When her father - who did not accept Shiva, ever - publicly humiliated her beloved at the ritual, Sati immolated herself in the sacrificial fire, desecrating it.
- With the slightest gesture of my head, I attempt several different elemental attacks at once, immolating one, freezing another, zapping a third with several thunderbolts and hitting a fourth with all three at once.
- Nobody in his or her right mind wants to see these horrible subdivisions built, but they are coming and there is no point in paying billions of dollars to rebuild them once they've been immolated.
- It continued to burn, seeming to immolate his very soul.
Synonyms sacrifice, offer up, offer as a sacrifice, kill as a sacrifice kill, slaughter, burn
Derivativesnoun ɪməˈleɪʃ(ə)nˌɪməˈleɪʃ(ə)n Both see morally mandated personal development as a form of self-destruction, an immolation of one's desires and impulses for the sake of something extrinsic to the self. Example sentencesExamples - The chaff that we most eagerly await the destruction of is the destruction of our own chaff, the immolation of that part of us that keeps us from seeing and following God as he truly is.
- No-one was ever convicted for these deaths by immolation.
- Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the immolation of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced.
- For the point of Christian martyrdom is not merely the immolation and glorification of individual bodies but the sustenance of a social body, the body of Christ.
noun ˈɪməleɪtəˈɪməˌleɪdər
OriginMid 16th century (earlier (late Middle English) as immolation): from Latin immolat- 'sprinkled with sacrificial meal', from the verb immolare, from in- 'upon' + mola 'meal'. Definition of immolate in US English: immolateverbˈiməˌlātˈɪməˌleɪt [with object]Kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning. 宰杀（尤指通过焚烧）…作祭品，将…供为祭品 Chinese kings would immolate vast numbers of animals Example sentencesExamples - Sir, the 24th Shock Army has been immolated by an advance air attack.
- For just as he is still daily immolated in a mystical manner whilst we show forth his death upon the altar, so also does he seem to be newly born whilst we annually commemorate his nativity.
- During the Vietnam War, Buddhist monks were active in efforts to bring hostilities to a close, and many of them immolated themselves publicly to protest the war.
- The slightest damage done to their reputation may at times lead to drastic consequences like fans immolating themselves.
- There was one young couple who, in the process of being immolated, died embracing one another.
- When her father - who did not accept Shiva, ever - publicly humiliated her beloved at the ritual, Sati immolated herself in the sacrificial fire, desecrating it.
- In a sense, it was her job to eschew the great literary career that most of their friends thought she had in her, immolating herself to affirm her husband's greater genius, and to justify all the sacrifices they had made in its name.
- But today we do so without risk of being immolated, and with the newfound knowledge that life is hardy, and that the habitable zone may be as large as the universe itself.
- Nobody in his or her right mind wants to see these horrible subdivisions built, but they are coming and there is no point in paying billions of dollars to rebuild them once they've been immolated.
- In the legend, the burden of hierarchical corruption is carried by the anathema hurled by the wives immolating themselves, and it culminates in a fatal robe of honour.
- It continued to burn, seeming to immolate his very soul.
- In a sense, art was for Kafka a means of immolating the self.
- In the old days, the priests used to immolate their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that.
- If you were older than 10 at the time, you remember iconic images of the conflict: a naked little girl fleeing a napalm attack; a police chief executing a suspect at point-blank range; a Buddhist monk immolating himself in protest.
- A man immolates himself in front of the most expensive Parliament in the world - just a few yards away from here - and not a word from the writers.
- With the slightest gesture of my head, I attempt several different elemental attacks at once, immolating one, freezing another, zapping a third with several thunderbolts and hitting a fourth with all three at once.
- Equally appalling was the story of Raja (name changed), who witnessed his mother immolating herself in front of him.
- No other country in Europe immolates cars with the gusto and single-minded efficiency of France.
- Madri immolates herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
- To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was immolated on the funeral pyre of her husband.
Synonyms sacrifice, offer up, offer as a sacrifice, kill as a sacrifice
OriginMid 16th century (earlier ( late Middle English) as immolation): from Latin immolat- ‘sprinkled with sacrificial meal’, from the verb immolare, from in- ‘upon’ + mola ‘meal’. |