as in to sacrifice
to give up as an offering to a god a ceremony in which they immolated their cherished possessions so that the gods would send rain

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Recent Examples of immolate Saddam’s regime had destroyed almost all its WMD programs in the early 1990s but continued for a decade longer to give every indication of having kept much of them, immolating itself in the process. Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 There are other legal advisors who have similarly immolated their careers on his behalf. Matt Ford, The New Republic, 2 Nov. 2023 Also immolated were irreplaceable family heirlooms. Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023 The album is front-loaded with familiar ruminations on immolating love, bubbling infatuations and shifting identities. Bobby Olivier, SPIN, 24 Mar. 2023 See all Example Sentences for immolate 

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“Immolate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immolate. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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