retrieve vs sacrifice

retrieve

verb
  • To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. 

  • To remember or recall something. 

  • To regain or get back something. 

  • To fetch and bring in game. 

  • To salvage something 

  • To fetch and bring in game systematically. 

  • To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. 

  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • To remedy or rectify something. 

  • To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game. 

noun
  • The return of a difficult ball 

  • A retrieval 

sacrifice

verb
  • To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out. 

  • To offer (something) as a gift to a deity. 

  • To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss. 

  • To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board. 

  • To destroy; to kill. 

  • To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money. 

  • To kill a test animal for autopsy. 

noun
  • A loss of profit. 

  • The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite. 

  • Something sacrificed. 

  • The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing. 

  • A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases. 

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