Sacked Verb Sack Sæk Sense Quarterback Bre Refusing

• she was sacked for refusing to work on sundays.
• rome was sacked by the goths in 410.
• the army rebelled and sacked the palace.
• the quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team.

sack

1. to dismiss somebody from a job
• synonym fire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fire_2
• She was sacked for refusing to work on Sundays.
2. (of an army, etc., especially in the past) to destroy things and steal property in a town or building
• Rome was sacked by the Goths in 410.
• The army rebelled and sacked the palace.
3. to knock down the quarterback
• See related entries: American football
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/american_football/sack_2
• The quarterback was sacked on the 45 yard line, and it was first down for the other team.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they sack
• he / she / it sacks
• past simple sacked
• past participle sacked
• -ing form sacking

Word Origin

• verb sense 1 and verb sense 3 Old English sacc, from Latin saccus ‘sack, sackcloth’, from Greek sakkos, of Semitic origin. Sense 1 of the verb dates from the mid 19th cent. verb sense 2 mid 16th cent.: from French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac ‘put to sack’, on the model of Italian fare il sacco, mettere a sacco, which perhaps originally referred to filling a sack with plunder.