sackedadj.1
/sakt/ That has been given up to sack; plundered, ravaged.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > sacking, raiding, or looting > [adjective] > sacked
sacked1594
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. M2 v Who like a late sack't Iland vastlie stood Bare and vnpeopled.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. v. 200 Semblable to that sacked Lacedemon in Sparta.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 474 Two large Goblets..which, when old Priam reign'd, My conqu'ring Sire at sack'd Arisba gain'd.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 239 An old woman..who looked as sacked and ruinous as everything around her.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
sackedadj.2
/sakt/ Wearing a sack.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > other
slitteredc1380
tatteredc1380
accoutredc1540
suiteda1592
undressed1605
uniforma1626
full-dressed1731
tucky1748
underdresseda1784
costumed1820
décolleté1831
fancy dressed1836
winter-clad1836
sacked1847
evening-dressed1848
mufti1853
tailor-made1896
swim-suited1955
1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xiv. 297 Gentlemen in wigs, and ladies powdered, patched and sacked.
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sackedadj.2
1. That has been put into a sack; stored in a sack.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > in or as in specific receptacles
barrelled1494
casked1624
pocketed1647
tunned1672
intubed1688
kitted1725
basined1745
canistered1843
pottled1845
carboyed1855
tubbed1882
sacked1895
pouched1905
cartoned1921
cupped1929
ampouled1969
slipcased1969
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Sack1vt. Sacked grain.
1937 E. Hemingway To have & have Not ii. i. 78 The man went on slowly lifting the sacked packages of liquor and dropping them over the side.
1970 D. Waterfield Continental Waterboy i. 3 The trouble with lock gates built of sacked mud is that they do not ordinarily open easily.
2. That has been ‘given the sack’; dismissed, discharged (from employment or office). Also absol.
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society > occupation and work > lack of work > [adjective] > dismissing or discharging > dismissed or discharged
discarded1631
time-expired1822
paid-off1894
sacked1934
pink-slipped1957
1934 G. B. Shaw On the Rocks (new ed.) Pref., in Too True to be Good 148 The exterminated, or, as we call them, the evicted and sacked, try to avoid starvation.
1981 Daily Tel. 10 Sept. 8/8 (heading) Pay out for sacked heart man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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