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Antonyms for sacked

Grammar : Verb
Spell : sak
Phonetic Transcription : sæk

Definition of sacked

Origin :
  • "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.
  • verb remove from position of responsibility
  • verb raid, plunder
Example sentences :
  • People of all ranks and creeds are flying from the town, which is sacked from end to end.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • They have sacked it, defiled it, destroyed it; but what does that matter!
  • Extract from : « Doctor Pascal » by Emile Zola
  • The village had been sacked by the Sultan's army, and its inhabitants had fled to the mountains.
  • Extract from : « The Scapegoat » by Hall Caine
  • Rome was taken and sacked by the Constable de Bourbon in 1527.
  • Extract from : « Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) » by Various
  • On either side of them were walls of sacked flour and other grain.
  • Extract from : « The Spoilers of the Valley » by Robert Watson
  • It was in the Winter Palace which, before it was sacked, was a palace.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • But we rode through a silent village that might have been just sacked by the French.
  • Extract from : « The O'Ruddy » by Stephen Crane
  • It was him that sacked me without a character on the word of a lying corn-chandler.
  • Extract from : « The Return of Sherlock Holmes » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Whilst returning to the junks, they sacked the village and set fire to the huts.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • The imperial city of Rhey was surprised in the night, sacked, and burnt to the ground.
  • Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli

Synonyms for sacked

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