Synonym: protomartyr, sufferer, victim. Similar words: party, property, poverty, mark, march, remark, margin, marker. Meaning: ['mɑrtər /'mɑːtə] 
n. 1. one who suffers for the sake of principle 2. one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion. v. 1. kill as a martyr 2. torture and torment like a martyr.
n. 1. one who suffers for the sake of principle 2. one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion. v. 1. kill as a martyr 2. torture and torment like a martyr. 
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31, Pious legend. After assisting in the burial of a martyr, this newly baptized soldier was taken before the emperor.
32, He's hardly a bloody martyr for being hit by a carton of juice, is he?
33, It was only after the revolution that Liviu Babes was named as the martyr.
34, He was celebrated there as a martyr, and his grave became a shrine, a sacred site, a pilgrimage centre.
35, In London they made Ken Livingstone a martyr and a hero.
36, Did her trick to catch the saint who avoided becoming a martyr.
37, Morrissey is the martyr - confessing to almost every social stigma in the book and finding pleasure in pain.
38, If there is no other career on offer, that of a martyr might have to do for the young men.
39, Both her parents are put in prison and her father dies there, a hero, a martyr to the cause.
40, Becoming a martyr in most business environments is a good way to damage your career progress permanently.
41, Don't be a martyr - ask for help if you need it.
42, And, since he had died for truth, he was a martyr, for this was what martyrdom meant.
43, It sounds to me like she has a little bit of a martyr mentality.
44, He is white or, if he is black, a recent convert to the missionary Church and a martyr.
45, The Mormons were given the greatest boon a struggling movement can want(http://sentencedict.com/martyr.html), a martyr.
46, Cathy's mother had been a martyr to her gruff, domineering husband.
47, There was a fear that he might die in Britain and become a rightwing martyr.
48, Guevara was killed a few months later and was immediately hailed a martyr to the revolution.
49, His death made him a martyr to the cruelties of minority white rule and racial separation.
50, A martyr of tolerance, I think she would like not to just purse her thin prim lips.
51, His death in police hands made him a martyr among the people.
52, While writing this book, I slipped back into my martyr for a couple of weeks.
53, After assisting in the burial of a martyr, this newly baptized soldier was taken before the emperor.
54, I feel sorry for people who think you have to be a martyr to mother.
55, Such resistance has, curiously, made Koresh a hero and martyr among some conservatives and right-wing militia groups.
56, In his unformed fantasies he imagined himself reborn and baptized, a martyr and a saint.
57, If he was to be a martyr to this strange woman's caprices, then so be it.
58, If booted out, he could portray himself as a martyr.
59, That girl whose father is martyr studies very hard.
60, He died a martyr in the cause of science.