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English Dictionary: sacked by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sacked
adj
  1. having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the raped countryside"
    Synonym(s): despoiled, pillaged, raped, ravaged, sacked
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
               The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
               city sacked by a barbarous enemy.            --Addison.
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