'Immolate' definitions:
Definition of 'immolate'
(from WordNet)
verb
Offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction; "The Aztecs immolated human victims"; "immolate the valuables at the temple"
Definition of 'Immolate'
From: GCIDE
- Immolate \Im"mo*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Immolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Immolating.] [L. immolatus, p. p. of immolare to sacrifice, orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. im- in + mola grits or grains of spelt coarsely ground and mixed with salt; also, mill. See Molar, Meal ground grain.]
- 1. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. [1913 Webster]
- Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To destroy by fire. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'immolate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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