sacked
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sacked - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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.
[1913 Webster]
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
city sacked by a barbarous enemy. --Addison.
[1913 Webster]
sacked - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
sacked
adj 1: having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence;
"the raped countryside" [syn: despoiled, pillaged,
raped, ravaged, sacked]
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