sacked

verbremove from position of responsibility
verbraid, plunder

Synonyms for sacked

verb remove from position of responsibility

Antonyms for sacked

Word Origin & History

"large bag," Old English sacc (West Saxon), sec (Mercian), sæc (Old Kentish) "large cloth bag," also "sackcloth," from Proto-Germanic *sakkiz (cf. Middle Dutch sak, Old High German sac, Old Norse sekkr, but Gothic sakkus probably is directly from Greek), an early borrowing from Latin saccus (also source of Old French sac, Spanish saco, Italian sacco), from Greek sakkos, from Semitic (cf. Hebrew saq "sack").

The wide spread of the word is probably due to the Biblical story of Joseph, in which a sack of corn figures (Gen. xliv). Baseball slang sense of "a base" is attested from 1913. Slang meaning "bunk, bed" is from 1825, originally nautical. The verb meaning "go to bed" is recorded from 1946. Sack race attested from 1805.

Example Sentences for sacked

People of all ranks and creeds are flying from the town, which is sacked from end to end.

They have sacked it, defiled it, destroyed it; but what does that matter!

The village had been sacked by the Sultan's army, and its inhabitants had fled to the mountains.

Rome was taken and sacked by the Constable de Bourbon in 1527.

On either side of them were walls of sacked flour and other grain.

It was in the Winter Palace which, before it was sacked, was a palace.

But we rode through a silent village that might have been just sacked by the French.

It was him that sacked me without a character on the word of a lying corn-chandler.

Whilst returning to the junks, they sacked the village and set fire to the huts.

The imperial city of Rhey was surprised in the night, sacked, and burnt to the ground.

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discharged

stolen

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More words related to sacked

destroyed

discharged

stolen