offer up

verb

To give (thanks, praise) to God.

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Meanings

verboffer up (third-person singular simple present offers up, present participle offering up, simple past and past participle offered up)

present singular third person offers up · participle present offering up · participle past offered up · past offered up

  1. idiomatictransitiveTo give (thanks, praise) to God.
  2. idiomatictransitiveTo sacrifice.

    After the Master Of Whisperers starts composing his written testimony about Jon being the rightful heir to the throne, Tyrion turns on his old friend and offers him up to Dany.

    2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019
  3. idiomatictransitiveTo present.

    But the World Cup winning veteran's left boot was awry again, the attempt sliced horribly wide of the left upright, and the saltires were waving aloft again a moment later when a long pass in the England midfield was picked off to almost offer up a breakaway try.

    2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport

Synonyms & antonyms

verbpresent as an act of worship

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Chicago

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