Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.
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Immolate
//ˈɪm.ə.leɪt//
Synonyms for "immolate" (46 found)
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Closest matches (10)
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Related words (23)
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1 entriesderived
3 entriesmanner of
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2 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 18 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ذَبَحَ verb (kill as sacrifice)
Armenian
3 entries- զենել verb (kill as sacrifice)
- զոհաբերել verb (kill as sacrifice)
- ողջակիզել verb (destroy)
Bulgarian
1 entries- принасям в жертва verb (kill as sacrifice)
Catalan
3 entries- immolar verb (kill as sacrifice)
- immolar verb (destroy)
- sacrificar verb (kill as sacrifice)
Dutch
2 entries- offeren verb (kill as sacrifice)
- vernietigen verb (destroy)
Finnish
3 entries- polttaa verb (destroy)
- tuhota verb (destroy)
- uhrata verb (kill as sacrifice)
French
3 entries- immoler verb (kill as sacrifice)
- immoler verb (destroy)
- sacrifier verb (kill as sacrifice)
German
2 entries- opfern verb (kill as sacrifice)
- zerstören verb (destroy)
Italian
2 entries- immolare verb (kill as sacrifice)
- sacrificare verb (kill as sacrifice)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- ofre verb (kill as sacrifice)
Portuguese
3 entries- imolar verb (kill as sacrifice)
- imolar verb (destroy)
- sacrificar verb (kill as sacrifice)
Romanian
2 entries- imola verb (kill as sacrifice)
- sacrifica verb (kill as sacrifice)
Russian
3 entries- приноси́ть в жертву verb (kill as sacrifice)
- сжига́ть verb (destroy)
- соверша́ть жертвоприноше́ние verb (kill as sacrifice)
Spanish
3 entries- inmolar verb (kill as sacrifice)
- inmolar verb (destroy)
- sacrificar verb (kill as sacrifice)
Swedish
1 entries- offra verb (kill as sacrifice)
Tibetan
1 entries- དམར་མཆོད་བྱེད་པ verb (kill as sacrifice)
Ukrainian
1 entries- прино́сити в же́ртву verb (kill as sacrifice)
Vietnamese
1 entries- tự thiêu verb (kill as sacrifice)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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