His death was a sublime self-sacrifice.
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Self-sacrifice
Synonyms for "self-sacrifice" (28 found)
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Related words (14)
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38 translations across 28 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- fədakarlıq noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- саможертва noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 自我犧牲 /自我牺牲 noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Czech
1 entries- sebeobětování noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Danish
1 entries- selvopofrelse noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Dutch
1 entries- zelfopoffering noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Esperanto
1 entries- memofero noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Estonian
1 entries- eneseohverdus noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Finnish
1 entries- uhrautuminen noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
French
2 entries- auto-sacrifice noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- sacrifice de soi noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
German
1 entries- Selbstaufopferung noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Greek
1 entries- αυτοθυσία noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Hungarian
1 entries- önfeláldozás noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Irish
1 entries- féiníobairt noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Italian
2 entries- abnegazione noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- autosacrificio noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Japanese
1 entries- 自己犠牲 noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Macedonian
2 entries- самопожртву́вање noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- самопре́гор noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- selvoppofrelse noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- sjølvoppofring noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Polish
1 entries- samopoświęcenie noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Portuguese
1 entries- autossacrifício noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Romanian
1 entries- sacrificiu de sine noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Russian
1 entries- самопоже́ртвование noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- samoodricanje noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- samopregor noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- samožr̀tvovānje noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- саможр̀твова̄ње noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Spanish
2 entries- abnegación noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- autosacrificio noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Swedish
1 entries- självuppoffring noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Turkish
2 entries- fedakârlık noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
- özveri noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- самопоже́ртва noun (giving up of one's own benefit)
Sample sentences
11 total sentences available.
Talk to your pieces, ask them where they would like to go, whether they would like to leave the board or even self-sacrifice for the greater good.
Source: tatoeba (10308165)
Honestly, I think if Mary had admitted she knew damn well what she was doing, and was understandably guilty about that, I'd have more sympathy for her. Altruism and self-sacrifice are fine to talk about, but actually being willing to give up your life for someone else—which is probably what refusing to rat people out to the bad guys would have come to, for her—is a pretty tall order. Not everyone is that brave, and being forced into a position where she had to choose between her own life and the lives of the people around her was a miserable and unfair position the villains are responsible for putting her in. She didn't do it unprompted.
Source: tatoeba (13590138)
Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
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