Hyphenation of sacrifice

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word sacrifice? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

sac-ri-fice

Definitions of sacrifice:

1.	The act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.
2.	Personnel that are sacrificed (e.g., surrendered or lost in order to gain an objective)
3.	A loss entailed by giving up or selling something at less than its value He had to sell his car at a considerable sacrifice
4.	The act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
5.	(baseball) an out that advances the base runners
6.	Endure the loss of He gave his life for his children I gave two sons to the war
7.	Kill or destroy The animals were sacrificed after the experiment The general had to sacrifice several soldiers to save the regiment
8.	Sell at a loss
9.	Make a sacrifice of In religious rituals

Synonyms of sacrifice:

noun	forfeit, forfeiture, act, human action, human activity
noun	personnel casualty, loss
noun	loss
noun	ritual killing, killing, kill, putting to death
noun	putout
verb	give, release, relinquish, resign, free, give up
verb	kill
verb	sell
verb	offer, offer up

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.