How to pronounce “martyr”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• One who willingly accepts being put to death or willingly accepts challenging and exposing iniquity done to oneself for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after red martyrdom.
• (by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
• (with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
• (derogatory) Someone who exaggerate their pain and suffering in order to gain sympathy.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make someone into a martyr by putting them to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
• (transitive) To persecute.
• (transitive) To torment; to torture.

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