Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Sacked"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sacked
adj : having been robbed and destroyed by force and violence; "the
raped countryside" [syn: {despoiled}, {pillaged}, {raped},
{ravaged}]
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