WordNet: ritual killing, sacrifice

the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity

• domain: topic animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

• hypernym kill, killing, putting to death

• hyponym hecatomb

• hyponym immolation

ritual killing

• (suomi) rituaalinen tappo (synonyymi)

sacrifice

• (englanti) sacrifice (derivationally related)

• (englanti) sacrifice (derivationally related)

• (englanti) sacrificial (derivationally related)
• (suomi) uhraus (synonyymi)

• (suomi) uhraaminen (synonyymi)