(v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a 2010 essay, Berman wrote of visiting the Bronx again, with trepidation, fearing that the borough's notorious self-immolation would have left nothing of the world he remembered.
(2) "Saturday's self-immolation is the latest in an ever-increasing list of courageous and profound acts which the world cannot continue to ignore."
(3) By burning the pilot to death, the militants violated Islam’s prohibition on the immolation or mutilation of bodies – even during wartime, he said.
(4) Gepey died after self-immolating behind a military camp, Free Tibet said.
(5) The actor was asked about recent cases of self-immolation by Tibetan Buddhist monks protesting against China .
(6) While much of Britain’s attention has been on the latest twists, turns and turmoil over Brexit , Northern Ireland has been quietly self-immolating in the corner.
(7) In 2009 a number of Tamils in India self-immolated in protest against ongoing war crimes committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka.
(8) Film of the area taken by journalists from the AFP news agency last month showed a heavy presence of Chinese security authorities with patrols equipped with fire extinguishers to stop further attempts at self-immolation.
(9) The latest self-immolation comes at an especially sensitive time, ahead of Wednesday's traditional Tibetan new year celebrations and the anniversary of the 14 March 2008, riots in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, which left 22 people dead.
(10) Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.
(11) The charming 67-year-old sitting in a rehearsal room at the Globe theatre in London is energetic, even defiant; but someone bent on theatrical self-immolation?
(12) The 27-year-old teacher of linguistics at Tunis University was one of the most high-profile bloggers following Mohammed Bouazizi's self-immolation, travelling to his home town of Sidi Bouzid to chronicle events both for her blog and Facebook.
(13) Tibetan areas have seen the worst unrest since 2008 this year, with several protests and a spate of self-immolations , mostly in Sichuan province.
(14) The Dalai Lama has praised the courage of those who engage in self-immolation and has attributed the protests to what he calls China's "cultural genocide" in Tibet.
(15) Tibetans, including a prominent writer in Beijing, have pleaded for an end to the self-immolations, saying they are not helping the cause of Tibetan rights.
(16) A man who answered the phone at the Kirti Monastery hung up when he was asked about the self-immolation.
(17) Last October, a taxi driver self-immolated in Alexandria after accusing government officials of being responsible for heightened living costs.
(18) He said that at the time Seemanpillai died, “there was no concern or indication of any suicidal ideation” and that a caseworker had been in contact with Seemanpillai the day before he self-immolated.
(19) And 13 of the current 23 self-immolations have occurred here.
(20) It quoted a Tibetan expert who said the "Dalai Lama clique" had "instigated and enticed" the men to self-immolate.
Vanquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scot has spoken many times of his ill fortune in reaching his peak at a time when his vanquished opponent Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have dominated.
(2) You only leave the ring, even when bloody, at the end; whether you are victorious or vanquished,” he said.
(3) His rapid build-up in Syria is not, primarily, about vanquishing Isis, although Russia certainly has good reason to fear Islamist extremism.
(4) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
(5) On a night when Jerome Sinclair came off the bench to become Liverpool's youngest ever player at the age of 16 years and six days – he is so new to the scene that the club got his christian name wrong on the team-sheet and put him down as Jordan – Nuri Sahin endeared himself to the travelling supporters with two goals to help the holders vanquish West Brom and secure a place in the last 16, where Rodgers will come up against Swansea City, his former club.
(6) Using armoured vehicles supplied by the US to the vanquished Iraqi army, Isis has taken 12 villages in the Aleppo countryside in the past fortnight and is threatening to turn its guns on the opposition at the same time as it tries to engage the Syrian regime.
(7) Recall that "three dozen" -- that's "three dozen" -- current and former Obama aides ran to the New York Times in May to heap praise on Obama's supposedly judicious though resolute use of drones to vanquish America's enemies.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: I’ve had more votes than ‘disturbing’ Donald Trump For Clinton, the five states voting on Tuesday offer a chance to vanquish the Vermont senator, and his unexpectedly strong leftwing challenge, with a more optimistic diagnosis.
(9) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(10) More pertinent will be the ramifications of this result for victors and vanquished in the weeks ahead.
(11) One of the last areas of mental competition in which humanity had an advantage over machines will have been vanquished.
(12) Although Adili Wuxor has never vanquished any ghosts, his rise to national stardom has, for many Uighurs, comparable significance.
(13) Hypertension and ischemic heart disease vanquished many of the survivors of the seige of Leningrad.
(14) How should we go about making sense of an obscurantist crime the better to vanquish it?
(15) There was also nostalgia for simpler times in the form of the immense popularity of western films and radio shows, like The Lone Ranger , in which heroes were easily identifiable, problems were solved with a quick fight and villains easily identified and eventually vanquished.
(16) Twenty-seven Colonials came to the plate and the Virginia pitcher vanquished them all, pitching a perfect game.
(17) Why should the leader, having vanquished his enemies, reward their failure with any kind of institutional veto over appointments?
(18) The novel reads like a manifesto for his obsessions: London, both everyday and arcane; a radical political sensibility; and a determination to resist the standard tropes of fantasy whereby quests are followed, chosen ones fulfil their destiny and evil is vanquished.
(19) Italy had never before conquered on penalties in the World Cup finals and were even vanquished by France in that fashion at the quarter-final stage eight years ago.
(20) Little wonder, then, that after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the nomination in South Carolina – seizing the lead and vanquishing competitor Jeb Bush – his first stop to boast was at a convention center in Atlanta.