[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sack \sack\, v. t. imp.  p. p. sacked; p. pr.  vb. n.
   sacking. see sack pillage.
   to plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to
   ravage.
   1913 webster

         the romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
         city sacked by a barbarous enemy.        --addison.
   1913 webster
see also:
sacked sacking sack 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

sacking \sack"ing\, n. as. saeccing, from saecc sack, bag.
   stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

sacking
     n 1: coarse fabric used for bags or sacks syn: bagging
     2: the termination of someone's employment leaving them free
        to depart syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing,
         liberation, release, sack
see also:
bagging dismissal dismission discharge firing liberation 
release sack 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

49 moby thesaurus words for "sacking":
   assault, attack, banditry, battering, brigandage, brigandism,
   butchery, depredation, despoiling, despoilment, despoliation,
   direption, disorderliness, foraging, foray, forcible seizure,
   freebooting, killing, laying waste, looting, marauding, massacre,
   obstreperousness, onslaught, pillage, pillaging, plunder,
   plundering, raid, raiding, ransacking, rape, rapine, ravage,
   ravagement, ravaging, ravishment, razzia, reiving, rifling, riot,
   rioting, sack, slaughter, sowing with salt, spoiling, spoliation,
   unruliness, violation

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