immolate
verb (used with object)
to sacrifice.
immolates
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present tense formof immolate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Social media runs on the righteous anger such betrayals can activate and, along with its more toxic cousins, that anger immolates most attempts at nuance.
From Salon ● Apr. 2, 2026
Hoping that she can learn the Fireman's secret to Dragonscale before she immolates or has her baby, Harper sets out into the New England forest with her rescuer.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016
Speak, then; let me at least know the name of him for whom she thus immolates herself.
From The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
She immolates herself for the suffering one, cares for him and saves him, then lays down her own life.
From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William Joseph Long
Before he can grow feeble and die he immolates himself willingly on his own altar; and a younger and a stronger than he receives his spirit.
From The Great Taboo by Grant Allen
