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SELF-SACRIFICING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-sacrificing mean?
• SELF-SACRIFICING (adjective)
The adjective SELF-SACRIFICING has 1 sense:
1. willing to deprive yourself
Familiarity information: SELF-SACRIFICING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SELF-SACRIFICING (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Willing to deprive yourself
Synonyms:
self-denying; self-giving; self-sacrificing
Similar:
unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)
Context examples
Meg and Jo came running down to behold the miracle which had been wrought, and Amy, feeling very precious and self-sacrificing, promised to go, if the doctor said Beth was going to be ill.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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