offer up

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offer up

verb offers up · offering up · offered up

idiomatic, transitive To give (thanks, praise) to God.
idiomatic, transitive To 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.
idiomatic, transitive To 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.

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@misc{offer_up_2026,
  title = {offer up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/offer%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}