Word: Sack
How to pronounce: sæk
Noun
Definitions:
1. A large bag made of a strong material such as burlap, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods.
2. A woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s.A woman's long loose gown.A decorative piece of dress material fastened to the shoulders of a woman's gown in loose pleats and forming a long train, fashionable in the 18th century.
3. Dismissal from employment.
4. Bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex.
5. A base.
6. An act of tackling a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he can throw a pass.
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. Dismiss from employment.
2. Tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage before they can throw a pass.
3. Put into a sack or sacks.
Transitive verb
Definitions:
1. (chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town, building, or other place)
Example sentences: "The fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197"
Noun
Definitions:
1. The pillaging of a town or city.
Example sentences: "The sack of Rome"
Noun
Definitions:
1. A dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canary Islands.
Example sentences: "In the Middle Ages many Alsace wines were fortified or spiced in order to compete with the fuller bodied Mediterranean wines such as sack and malmsey."
Synonyms:
pouch
bagful
sac
bag
bed
baggie
carrier bag
poke
retire
plunder
dismissal
firing
dismission
dismiss
displace
terminate
remove
fire
discharge
axe
loot
Derivations:
sacking
sackful
sacked
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Sack in Other Languages...
Spanish: Saco
German: Sack
French: Sac
Italian: Sacca
Turkish: çuval
