Synonyms for sack
sæksack

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1. sack

   Synonyms:
   plunder, pillage, ravage, waste, spoil

   Antonyms:
   spare, indemnify, protect, preserve

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1. sack, poke, paper bag, carrier bagnoun

   a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

   Synonyms:
   pocket, paper bag, lagger, firing, thrust, scoke, release, carrier bag, jab, poke, sacking, laggard, lick, chemise, clout, drone, sacque, hammock, trailer, slug, dismissal, punch, jabbing, pigeon berry, liberation, biff, sac, dawdler, shift, pouch, dismission, thrusting, discharge, poking, garget, sackful

2. pouch, sac, sack, pocketnoun

   an enclosed space

   "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, firing, hammock, sackful, air pocket, dismission, scoop, carrier bag, pouch, chemise, discharge, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, sacque, pocket, air hole, theca, liberation, poke

3. sack, sackfulnoun

   the quantity contained in a sack

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, firing, pocket, hammock, dismission, carrier bag, pouch, chemise, discharge, liberation, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, sacque, sackful, poke

4. sacknoun

   any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, firing, pocket, hammock, dismission, carrier bag, pouch, chemise, discharge, liberation, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, sacque, sackful, poke

5. sack, sacquenoun

   a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, firing, pocket, hammock, dismission, carrier bag, pouch, chemise, discharge, liberation, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, sacque, sackful, poke

6. hammock, sacknoun

   a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, liberation, mound, hammock, sackful, hummock, dismission, pouch, carrier bag, knoll, chemise, discharge, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, hillock, sacque, pocket, firing, poke

7. chemise, sack, shiftnoun

   a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

   Synonyms:
   pocket, paper bag, firing, liberation, duty period, shift key, release, transmutation, carrier bag, poke, sacking, displacement, faulting, chemise, switch, geological fault, teddy, sacque, shifting, hammock, break, shimmy, dismissal, sac, fault, shift, fracture, pouch, switching, discharge, work shift, dismission, transformation, slip, sackful

8. sacknoun

   the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter

   "the sack of Rome"

   Synonyms:
   dismissal, firing, pocket, hammock, dismission, carrier bag, pouch, chemise, discharge, liberation, release, sac, sacking, paper bag, shift, sacque, sackful, poke

9. dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sackingverb

   the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

   Synonyms:
   lighting, paper bag, electric discharge, firing, outpouring, pink slip, liberation, spark, judgement of dismissal, spillage, release, run, freeing, carrier bag, spill, kindling, sacking, electric arc, chemise, fire, emission, sacque, tone ending, poke, hammock, firing off, departure, arc, dismissal, press release, expelling, outlet, expiration, waiver, button, exit, judgment of dismissal, sac, pocket, shift, bagging, loss, inflammation, going, discharge, venting, pouch, handout, vent, dismission, acquittance, ignition, passing, sackful

10. sack, plunderverb

    plunder (a town) after capture

    "the barbarians sacked Rome"

    Synonyms:
    ransack, send away, spoil, violate, foray, pillage, reave, give notice, sack up, clear, give the sack, force out, rifle, dismiss, displace, can, rape, despoil, strip, net, loot, terminate, plunder, give the axe, fire

11. displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminateverb

    terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

    "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

    Synonyms:
    throw out, kindle, notify, depose, advise, gouge, go off, give the axe, burn, tin, can, apprize, rout out, plunder, enkindle, give the sack, put up, end, give the bounce, evict, elicit, discount, finish, move, fire, stop, arouse, drive out, crowd out, brush off, squeeze out, give notice, open fire, usher out, displace, send packing, send word, apprise, dissolve, push aside, dismiss, give the gate, raise, clear, ignore, provoke, sack up, burn down, cease, squirt, rouse, brush aside, discharge, evoke, fuel, force out, preempt, eject, terminate, disregard, drop, send away, net

12. net, sack, sack up, clearverb

    make as a net profit

    "The company cleared $1 million"

    Synonyms:
    discharge, earn, net, elucidate, pull in, bring in, give the axe, pass, web, assoil, can, plunder, shed light on, take in, give the sack, illuminate, light up, acquit, solve, make, fire, crystallise, realize, sack up, gain, give notice, displace, exculpate, unclutter, dismiss, crystalise, exonerate, crystalize, brighten, authorise, realise, crystallize, clear up, enlighten, nett, straighten out, force out, top, clear, sort out, terminate, send away, authorize

13. sackverb

    put in a sack

    "The grocer sacked the onions"

    Synonyms:
    terminate, displace, give the axe, fire, can, dismiss, give notice, net, force out, send away, give the sack, sack up, clear, plunder

Matched Categories

1. • Bed
   • Dress
   • Encase
   • Enclosed Space
   • Jacket
   • Plundering
   • Profit
   • Take
   • White Wine

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1. sacknoun

   Synonyms:
   bag, pouch

2. sacknoun

   Synonyms:
   spoliation, destruction, desolation, devastation, havoc, waste, ravage

3. sacknoun

   Synonyms:
   sherry, sherry wine

4. sackverb

   Synonyms:
   ravage, despoil, devastate, spoil, destroy, plunder, pillage, rifle, ransack, lay waste, take by storm

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1. sacknoun

   Synonyms:
   bag, pouch, pillage, plunder, rapine, havoc, devastation, spoliation

2. sackverb

   Synonyms:
   devastate, plunder, pillage, ravage, despoil, loot, rapine, strip

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1. List of paraphrases for "sack":

   bag, purse, pile, sac, bed, dismiss, odss, backpack, handbag, vandalize

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How to use sack in a sentence?

1. Probaerb:

   When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.

2. Luigi Pirandello:

   A fact is like a sack -- it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

3. Proverb:

   When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack

4. Remy de Gourmont:

   The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

5. Jamille Swainson:

   I asked her to have a look inside the hessian sack and then went down on one knee, she was speechless.