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immolate

UK/ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/US/ˈɪm.ə.leɪt/

immolate verb: to kill as a sacrifice by burning.

Verb

immolate (third-person singular simple present immolates, present participle immolating, simple past and past participle immolated)

  1. To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
    • 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.1957 December, “Wild Boars Charge French Train”, in Railway Magazine, page 840
    • 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.1978, A.S. Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden
  2. To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
    • She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act...1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

Adjective

immolate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Immolated, sacrificed.

immolate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

immolate in Tamil

உயிர்ப்பலி கொடு, தீயால் அழி

immolate in Urdu

نچھاور کرنا, قربانی کی بھینٹ چڑھانا

immolate in Bengali

উৎসর্গ করা, বলি দেওয়া

immolate in Malayalam

sacrifice, offer up, kill
ബലികഴിക്കുക, കുരുതികൊടുക്കുക, ആഹുതിചെയ്യുക, തീപ്പെടുക, തീയിൽ ചാടുക, ബലികൊടുക്കുക
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immolate in Kannada
ಕೋರಲು ಕೊಡು, ಬಲಿಯಾಗಿ ಕೊಲ್ಲು, ಆಹುತಿಯಾಗಿ ವಧಿಸು, ಬಲಿಕೊಡು
immolate in Arabic
ذَبَحَ ḏabaḥa
immolate in Vietnamese
tự thiêu

Forms of immolate

third-person singular presentimmolates
present participleimmolating
past participleimmolated
pastimmolated

Origin of immolate

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).

Words formed from immolate

Questions about immolate

What does immolate mean?
Immolate means to kill as a sacrifice by burning.
What is immolate in Tamil?
Immolate in Tamil is உயிர்ப்பலி கொடு, தீயால் அழி. See Immolate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is immolate?
Immolate can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce immolate?
Immolate is pronounced /ˈɪm.əʊ.leɪt/ (UK).
What is the past tense of immolate?
The past tense of immolate is immolated.

Words near immolate in the dictionary

  1. immodesties
  2. immodestly
  3. immodesty
  4. immodulated
  5. Immokalee
  6. immolate
  7. immolated
  8. immolates
  9. immolating
  10. immolation
  11. immolations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: immolate (page history and authors); immolate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immolate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Immolate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); immolate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); immolate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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