"immolate" meaning in English

See immolate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/ [UK], /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ [UK], /ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/ [US] Audio: en-au-immolate.ogg Forms: immolates [present, singular, third-person], immolating [participle, present], immolated [participle, past], immolated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (past participle immolātus). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*melh₂-}}, {{bor|en|la|immolō||I sacrifice}} Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} immolate (third-person singular simple present immolates, present participle immolating, simple past and past participle immolated)
  1. To kill as a sacrifice. Translations (kill as sacrifice): ذَبَحَ (ḏabaḥa) (Arabic), զոհաբերել (zohaberel) (Armenian), զենել (zenel) (Armenian), принасям в жертва (prinasjam v žertva) (Bulgarian), immolar (Catalan), sacrificar (Catalan), offeren (Dutch), uhrata (Finnish), immoler (French), sacrifier (French), opfern (German), immolare (Italian), sacrificare (Italian), ofre (Norwegian Bokmål), sacrificar (Portuguese), imolar (Portuguese), imola (Romanian), sacrifica (Romanian), соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние (soveršátʹ žertvoprinošénije) (Russian), приноси́ть в жертву (prinosítʹ v žertvu) (Russian), inmolar (Spanish), sacrificar (Spanish), offra (Swedish), དམར་མཆོད་བྱེད་པ (dmar mchod byed pa) (Tibetan), прино́сити в же́ртву (prynósyty v žértvu) (Ukrainian), tự thiêu (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-immolate-en-verb-6o172E2N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tibetan translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 59 41 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 54 46 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 52 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Tibetan translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 53 47 Disambiguation of 'kill as sacrifice': 90 10
  2. To kill or destroy, especially by fire. Categories (topical): Fire Translations (destroy): ողջակիզել (oġǰakizel) (Armenian), immolar (Catalan), vernietigen (Dutch), tuhota (Finnish), polttaa (Finnish), immoler (French), zerstören (German), imolar (Portuguese), сжига́ть (sžigátʹ) (Russian), inmolar (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: self-immolate, self-immolation Related terms: immolation

Inflected forms

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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "immolō",
        "4": "",
        "5": "I sacrifice"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin immolō (“I sacrifice”) (past participle immolātus).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "immolates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "immolating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "immolated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "immolated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "immolate (third-person singular simple present immolates, present participle immolating, simple past and past participle immolated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "immolation"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden:",
          "text": "A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill as a sacrifice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sacrifice",
          "sacrifice"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:",
          "text": "She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill or destroy, especially by fire."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "destroy",
          "destroy"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ḏabaḥa",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "ذَبَحَ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "zohaberel",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "զոհաբերել"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "zenel",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "զենել"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prinasjam v žertva",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "принасям в жертва"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "immolar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "offeren"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "uhrata"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "immoler"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "opfern"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "immolare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrificare"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "ofre"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "imolar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "imola"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrifica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "soveršátʹ žertvoprinošénije",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "prinosítʹ v žertvu",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "приноси́ть в жертву"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "inmolar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "sacrificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "offra"
    },
    {
      "code": "bo",
      "lang": "Tibetan",
      "roman": "dmar mchod byed pa",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "དམར་མཆོད་བྱེད་པ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "prynósyty v žértvu",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "прино́сити в же́ртву"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "kill as sacrifice",
      "word": "tự thiêu"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "oġǰakizel",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "ողջակիզել"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "immolar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "vernietigen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "tuhota"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "polttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "immoler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "zerstören"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "imolar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sžigátʹ",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "сжига́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "destroy",
      "word": "inmolar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immolate"
}

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