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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To kill as a sacrifice.
  2. v. To kill (oneself) by fire.
  3. v. To destroy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To kill as a sacrificial victim; offer in sacrifice; make a sacrifice of.
  2. Synonyms See sacrifice, v.

Wiktionary

  1. v. to kill as a sacrifice
  2. v. to destroy, especially by fire

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim.
  2. v. To destroy by fire.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. offer as a sacrifice by killing or by giving up to destruction

Etymologies

  1. From Latin immolō ("I sacrifice"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin immolāre, immolāt-, to sacrifice, sprinkle with sacrificial meal : in-, on; see in-2 + mola, meal, millstone; see melə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • dailyword Spock used this word in an episode of "Star Trek." Sep 2, 2012

  • sarra Yep. Jan 21, 2009

  • chained_bear Maybe because one usually hears the term as "self-immolation" in reference to people who burn themselves...? (Well, that's what I think of, anyway.) Jan 21, 2009

  • bilby There can be. Jan 21, 2009

  • kirinqueen For some reason I always think there should be fire involved with immolation. Jan 21, 2009

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