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Word: Sack
Speech Type: Verb
Etymology:
mid 16th century: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
sak
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building)
Short Definition:plunder and destroy
Examples:- the fort was rebuilt in AD 158 and was sacked again in AD 197
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