Found 2 items, similar to immolate.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: immolate
immolate
v : offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to
destruction;
“The Aztecs immolated human victims”;
“immolate the valuables at the temple”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Immolate
Immolate
\Im"mo*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Immolated; p. pr. &
vb. n.
Immolating.] [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to
sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal;
pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground
and mixed with salt; also, mill. See
Molar,
Meal ground
grain.]
1. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a
sacrificial victim.
[1913 Webster]
Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the
deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and
honor of women. --Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
2. To destroy by fire.
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