Immolate

v. t.	1.	To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. [imp. & p. p. Immolated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.] Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. - Boyle.
	2.	To destroy by fire.

Verb

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immolate - offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"

annihilate, appease, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death, end, execute, exterminate, finish, finish off, immolate before, kill, launch into eternity, liquidate, lynch, make away with, make propitiation, make sacrifice to, martyr, martyrize, offer sacrifice, poison, propitiate, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep, remove from life, sacrifice, slay, starve, take life, take off, victimize

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