Sack
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel. The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds). The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city. Loot or booty obtained by pillage. A successful tackle of the quarterback. See verb sense3 below. One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base. Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense4 below. Bed; usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out. (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape. The scrotum. A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To put in a sack or sacks. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from. To tackle, usually to tackle the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass. To discharge from a job or position; to fire. In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.
Example sentence: A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
Plunder
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An instance of plunderingThe loot attained by plundering
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To pillage, take or destroy all the goods of, by force (as in war); to raid, sack.To take by force or wrongfully; to commit robbery or looting, to raid.To make extensive (over)use of, as if by plundering; to use or use up wrongfully.
Example sentence: Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.