Word
ritual killing, n.
the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deity
<noun.act>
ritual killing
sacrifice
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
sacrificial
sacrifice
sacrifice
semantic pointers
domain of synset (topic)
animal, creature, beast, animate being, brute, fauna
hypernym
killing, kill, putting to death
hyponym
hecatomb
immolation