Crossword clues for sacked
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
The Romans lay under the apprehensions of seeing their
city sacked by a barbarous enemy.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: sack)
WordNet
Usage examples of "sacked".
The town was sacked, and the squadron sailed away to pillage Cartagena and St Augustine.
They raided Nueva Segovia, took a number of Spanish ships, and sacked Maracaibo and western Gibraltar.
He would suggest one or two, giving his reasons, perhaps bringing in an Indian with news of a gold mine on the Main, or of a treasure-house that might be sacked, or of a plate ship about to sail eastward.
The city which Morgan sacked was built upon a strip of level ground planted with fruit-trees, at a little distance from the sea, but within a few yards of the bay.
Early the next morning the pirates sacked the place, and made great havoc in the poultry-yards and cattle-pens.
It was not the buccaneer custom to fire cities before they had sacked them, nor is it in the least likely that Morgan would have burnt so glorious a town before he had offered it to ransom.
The warehouses were sacked, and many pirates made themselves coats of silk and velvet to replace the rags they came in.
One strong company went to Cuba, where they sacked the Town of the Keys, and won a good booty.
They shaped their course for Porto Bello, which had recovered something of its old wealth and beauty, in the years of peace it had enjoyed since Morgan sacked it.
They took the town, and sacked its sugar refineries, which they burnt.
Her lady mother was dead too, murdered at the Twins, and Winterfell, the great Stark stronghold, had been sacked and burned, its people put to the sword.
Such inns as they passed had either been sacked and abandoned or turned into armed camps.
They did not take the main road west, the road that Brienne had once ridden with Ser Jaime when they came the other way to find Maidenpool sacked and full of corpses.
Westeros, the ironmen had sacked Ryamsport and taken Vinetown and Starfish Harbor for their own, using them as bases to prey on shipping bound for Oldtown.
Temple in Jerusalem when you sacked it and scattered us through the world.