Immolate

Quick meaning: Immolate is a verb meaning To kill as a sacrifice by burning.

Meaning

To kill as a sacrifice by burning.

More Meanings

1. To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
2. (used as a participle, obsolete) Immolated, sacrificed.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• immolates
• immolating
• immolated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sacrifice, kill, victimate, sacrify, eliminate, extinguish.

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