immolate
स्वतःचा बळी
definition
verb
When her father - who did not accept Shiva, ever - publicly humiliated her beloved at the ritual, Sati immolated herself in the sacrificial fire, desecrating it.
kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning.
translation of 'immolate'
बळी म्हणून ठार मारणे,
स्वतःचा बळी देणे
example
In the old days, the priests used to 'immolate' their sacrifices at the shrine of Huitzilopochti on top of the temple mayor of Tenochtitlan, but we're more civilised than that.
Chinese kings would 'immolate' vast numbers of animals
It continued to burn, seeming to 'immolate' his very soul.
A man 'immolates' himself in front of the most expensive Parliament in the world - just a few yards away from here - and not a word from the writers.
But today we do so without risk of being 'immolated' , and with the newfound knowledge that life is hardy, and that the habitable zone may be as large as the universe itself.
Both see morally mandated personal development as a form of self-destruction, an 'immolation' of one's desires and impulses for the sake of something extrinsic to the self.
In a sense, it was her job to eschew the great literary career that most of their friends thought she had in her, 'immolating' herself to affirm her husband's greater genius, and to justify all the sacrifices they had made in its name.
Nobody in his or her right mind wants to see these horrible subdivisions built, but they are coming and there is no point in paying billions of dollars to rebuild them once they've been 'immolated' .
Female infanticide was common, and the practice of sati, the 'immolation' of the wife on her husband's funeral pyre, was encouraged, sometimes even forced.
For the point of Christian martyrdom is not merely the 'immolation' and glorification of individual bodies but the sustenance of a social body, the body of Christ.
Madri 'immolates' herself on her husband's funeral pyre.
Equally appalling was the story of Raja (name changed), who witnessed his mother 'immolating' herself in front of him.
When her father - who did not accept Shiva, ever - publicly humiliated her beloved at the ritual, Sati 'immolated' herself in the sacrificial fire, desecrating it.
With the slightest gesture of my head, I attempt several different elemental attacks at once, 'immolating' one, freezing another, zapping a third with several thunderbolts and hitting a fourth with all three at once.
The chaff that we most eagerly await the destruction of is the destruction of our own chaff, the 'immolation' of that part of us that keeps us from seeing and following God as he truly is.
The slightest damage done to their reputation may at times lead to drastic consequences like fans 'immolating' themselves.
There was one young couple who, in the process of being 'immolated' , died embracing one another.
No other country in Europe 'immolates' cars with the gusto and single-minded efficiency of France.
To explain the weakness of such a position I used to ask them whether the British authorities in India were justified in banning the practice of suttee, where a widow was 'immolated' on the funeral pyre of her husband.
During the Vietnam War, Buddhist monks were active in efforts to bring hostilities to a close, and many of them 'immolated' themselves publicly to protest the war.
If you were older than 10 at the time, you remember iconic images of the conflict: a naked little girl fleeing a napalm attack; a police chief executing a suspect at point-blank range; a Buddhist monk 'immolating' himself in protest.
Sir, the 24th Shock Army has been 'immolated' by an advance air attack.
In a sense, art was for Kafka a means of 'immolating' the self.
For just as he is still daily 'immolated' in a mystical manner whilst we show forth his death upon the altar, so also does he seem to be newly born whilst we annually commemorate his nativity.
No-one was ever convicted for these deaths by 'immolation' .
In the legend, the burden of hierarchical corruption is carried by the anathema hurled by the wives 'immolating' themselves, and it culminates in a fatal robe of honour.
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