Random Word: Immolate

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Immolate: im-uh-leyt

verb (used with object), immolated, immolating.  

1. to sacrifice.

2. to kill as a sacrificial victim, as by fire; offer in sacrifice.

3. to destroy by fire.

origin

1540-50; < Latin  immolātus, past participle of immolāre to sprinkle with holy meal prior to sacrificing, sacrifice, equivalent to im-  im-1+ mol (a) sacrificial barley cake, literally, millstone
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