Sack
Sack verb - Plunder (a town) after capture.
Usage example: the barbarians sacked Rome
Take
Take verb - To reach for and take hold of by embracing with the fingers or arms.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| fresh | fresh sack | fresh take |
| single | single sack | single take |
| large | large sack | large take |
| big | big sack | big take |
| Other adjectives: huge, little, bad, humorous, traditional, literal, generic. | ||
Common collocations
| place | sack place | take place |
Both words in one sentence
- Ungrateful Bastard: Fred thinks this of Nick when he gives his younger brother a well thought, hand made and very personalised present, only for the future saint to immediatly put it in a sack and take it with a bunch of his other belongings to give to another boy.
Source: Film / Fred Claus - If a workman did a bad job, instead of being paid he was given a sack to take his tools away in.
Source: Useful Notes / British English -
Dorothy Dunnett's The Disorderly Knights, third book in the Lymond Chronicles, depicts the 1651 siege of Malta, in which the Turks sack Gozo and take Tripoli.
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