OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11428

sack

/sæk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ensacar
To put in a sack or sacks.
Help me sack the groceries.
The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.
saquear
To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
It [a lyre] was part of the spoils which he had taken when he sacked the city of Eetion […]
The barbarians sacked Rome in 410 CE.
correr • despedir
To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
He was sacked last September.
[…] Boris Berezovsky on Friday dismissed President Boris Yeltsin's move to sack him from his post as executive secretary of the Commonwealth of Independent States, […]