Sacked Synonyms and Antonyms

Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. canned
  2. fired
  3. terminated
  4. dismissed
  5. bounced
  6. booted
  7. discharged
  8. released
  9. dropped
  10. displaced
  11. cashiered
Antonyms:
  1. hired
  2. employed
Having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. despoiled
  2. pillaged
  3. raped
  4. ravaged

Words Related to Sacked

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Sacked Sentence Examples

  • He sacked and burned the town.

  • In 1825 it was sacked by Ibrahim Pasha.

  • In the First Punic War, however, it was sacked by the Romans (261) and the Carthaginians (255), and finally in the Second Punic War by the Romans (210).

  • The drawbridge of London Bridge having been lowered by treachery, Tyler and his followers crossed the Thames; and being joined by thousands of London apprentices, artisans and criminals, they sacked and burnt John of Gaunt's splendid palace of the Savoy, the official residence of the treasurer, Sir Robert Hales, and the prisons of Newgate and the Fleet.

  • As an immediate result of this catastrophe, Florence shook off the Medici, and established a republic. But Clement, having made peace with the emperor, turned the remnants of the army which had sacked Rome against his native city.

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