Sack \Sack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Sacking.] [See Sack pillage.]
   To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to
   ravage.
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         The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
         city sacked by a barbarous enemy.        --Addison.
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	Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. saeccing, from saecc sack, bag.]
   Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
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	sacking
     n 1: coarse fabric used for bags or sacks [syn: bagging]
     2: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free
        to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing,
         liberation, release, sack]

	

	49 Moby Thesaurus words for "sacking":
   assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism,
   butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
   direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure,
   freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre,
   obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder,
   plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage,
   ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot,
   rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation,
   unruliness, violation