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immolate

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/Part of speech verbSorted aeilmmotStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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  1. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction

Word origin

The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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  • 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.

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