sack

sack is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 24 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
2. noun. A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.
3. noun. A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.
4. noun. Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.
5. noun. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
6. noun. See 2d Sac, 2.
7. noun. Bed.
8. transitive verb. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.
9. transitive verb. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
10. noun. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
11. transitive verb. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
12. noun. the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

    Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking

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

    "the sack of Rome"

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

    Synonyms: chemise, shift

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

    Synonyms: hammock

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

    Synonyms: poke

17. noun. a woman's full loose hiplength jacket

    Synonyms: sacque

18. noun. any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)
19. noun. the quantity contained in a sack

    Synonyms: sackful

20. noun. an enclosed space

    "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"

    Synonyms: pocket, pouch, sac

21. verb. put in a sack

    "The grocer sacked the onions"

22. verb. make as a net profit

    "The company cleared $1 million"

    Synonyms: clear, net

23. verb. plunder (a town) after capture

    "the barbarians sacked Rome"

    Synonyms: plunder

24. verb. terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

    "The boss fired his secretary today"

    "The company terminated 25% of its workers"

    Synonyms: can, dismiss, displace, fire, terminate

Synonyms

discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sacking, chemise, shift, hammock, poke, sacque, sackful, pocket, pouch, sac, clear, net, plunder, can, dismiss, displace, fire, terminate

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sack:

cask

Common word forms

sacks, sacked, sacken, sacker, sackful, sacking, sackable, sackless

Words from these letters

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