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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  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]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. s[ae]ccing, from s[ae]cc sack, bag.]
     Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.
     [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Sacking \Sack"ing\, n. [AS. s[ae]ccing, from s[ae]cc sack, bag.]
     Stout, coarse cloth of which sacks, bags, etc., are made.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  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]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make
  bags (sacks).
     2 (lb en countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
     vb.
     (present participle of en sack nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make
  bags (sacks).
     2 (lb en countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
     vb.
     (present participle of en sack nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make
  bags (sacks).
     2 (lb en countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
     vb.
     (present participle of en sack nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     n.
     1 (lb en uncountable) Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make
  bags (sacks).
     2 (lb en countable) Firing or termination of an employee.
     vb.
     (present participle of en sack nocat=1)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm s ack ing)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  sacking
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en sack ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb sack)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Sacking /sˈakɪŋ/
  الطرد

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  sacking /sˈakɪŋ/ 
  propuštění

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sacking /sˈakɪŋ/
  feuernd, rausschmeißend
     Synonym: firing
  
   see: sack sb., fire sb., sacked, fired
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  sacking /sˈakɪŋ/
  eine Stadt/ein Land usw. verwüstend, eine Stadt in Schutt und Asche legend
     Synonyms: devastating, ravaging, leaving in ruins a town/country, laying waste to a town/country etc.
  
   see: devastate, ravage, sack, leave in ruins a town/country, lay waste to a town/country etc., devastated, ravaged, sacked, left in ruins a town/country, laid waste to a town/country etc., The town had been laid waste.
  

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  sacking /sˈakɪŋ/
  1. kirúgás
  2. fosztogatás
  3. kifosztás
  4. kirablás
  5. elbocsátás
  6. zsákanyag
  7. zsákvászon
  8. zsákolás

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  sacking /ˈsækɪŋ/ 
    tkanina workowa

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  sacking /sˈakɪŋ/
  1. çul, çuval bezi.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈsækɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  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
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 袋布,制袋用粗麻布,帆布;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 袋布,制袋用粗麻布,帆布

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