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n. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.

n. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.

n. One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis.

n. One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.

v. To make a martyr of, especially to put to death for devotion to religious beliefs.

v. To inflict great pain on; torment.

n. One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.

n. One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or what is of great value to him or her, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.

n. One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.

v. To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

v. To persecute.

v. To torment; to torture.

n. One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion.

n. Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.

v. To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.

v. To persecute; to torment; to torture.

n. Originally, a witness; one who bears testimony to his faith.

n. One who willingly suffers death rather than surrender his religious faith; one who bears witness to the sincerity of his faith by submitting to death in asserting it; specifically, one of those Christians who in former times were put to death because they would not renounce their religious belief: as, Stephen was the first martyr (called the protomartyr); the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

n. One who suffers death or grievous loss in defense or on behalf of any belief or cause, or in consequence of supporting it: as, he died a martyr to his political principles or to his devotion to science.

n. Hence One who suffers greatly from any cause; one who is afflicted; a victim of misfortune, calamity, or disease: as, a martyr to gout, or to tight lacing.

n. [⟨ martyr, v.] An old instrument of torture in which the victim was subjected to agonizing pressure.

n. In wine-making, a wooden box used for pressing grapes.

To put to death as a punishment for adherence to some religious belief, especially for adherence to Christianity; hence, to put to death for the maintaining of any obnoxious belief or cause.

To put to death for any cause; destroy, as in revenge or retaliation; torture.

To persecute as a martyr; afflict; despoil; torment.

n. one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion

v. kill as a martyr

v. torture and torment like a martyr

n. one who suffers for the sake of principle

""Have a care that in being such, you do not become a martyr to love, the _martyr of a woman_.""

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martyred    martyring    martyrs   

kill    torment    excruciate    torture   

the order of the martyrs    era of martyrs    acts of the martyrs   

martyrologe    protomartyr    martyry    martyrology    martyrium    martyrologue    martyrion   

martyrer   

persecute    torment    torture    sufferer    shahid    shaheed    martyrize   

Carter    Tartar    arter    barter    carter    charter    darter    garter    marter    nonstarter   

saint    patriot    apostle    benefactor    prophet    hero    statesman    martyrdom    bishop    monarch