sacked

The word “sacked” has 1 syllable: sacked

It's pronounced as /sækt/


What is synonym and antonym for sacked?

In the thesaurus, “sacked” has 79 synonyms and 20 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sacked along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for sacked

  • abolished
  • annihilated
  • axed
  • blasted
  • blighted
  • bounced
  • broke in
  • broken
  • burglarized
  • canned
  • cashiered
  • combed
  • consumed
  • demolished
  • despoiled
  • devastated
  • devoured
  • discharged
  • disintegrated
  • dismissed
  • downsized
  • ejected
  • eradicated
  • excessed
  • expelled
  • felled
  • fired
  • freed
  • furloughed
  • gutted
  • harried
  • hunted
  • incinerated
  • kicked out
  • killed
  • laid off
  • laid-off
  • let go
  • looted
  • lost
  • marauded
  • mustered out
  • obliterated
  • ousted
  • overwhelmed
  • pillaged
  • pink-slipped
  • plundered
  • raided
  • raked
  • ransacked
  • ravaged
  • ravished
  • razed
  • recalled
  • released
  • removed
  • replaced
  • retired
  • rifled
  • ripped off
  • ruined
  • rummaged
  • sent away
  • sent home
  • sent packing
  • separated
  • shattered
  • smashed
  • terminated
  • threw out
  • torn down
  • totaled
  • trimmed
  • turned off
  • unseated
  • wasted
  • wiped-out
  • wrecked

Antonyms for sacked

  • contracted
  • employed
  • engaged
  • fixed
  • hired
  • intact
  • kept
  • protected
  • re-employed
  • recruited
  • reemployed
  • rehired
  • repaired
  • restored
  • retained
  • saved
  • sober
  • subcontracted
  • successful
  • took on

Meanings of sacked

  • verb
    1. (games) To sacrifice.
    2. To put in a sack or sacks.
    3. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
    4. To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.
    5. To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.
    6. To discharge from a job or position; to fire.
    7. In the phrase sack out, to fall asleep. See also hit the sack.

Example Sentences

  • The football team sacked the quarterback multiple times during the game.
  • After the scandal, the CEO was sacked by the board of directors.
  • The invaders sacked the city, leaving chaos and destruction in their wake.
  • Despite his talent, the actor was sacked from the movie following a disagreement with the director.
  • The company sacked several employees due to budget cuts.

On this page you'll find 99 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sacked, such as: abolished, annihilated, axed, blasted, blighted, bounced, broke in.

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Related Words

abolished

  • abated
  • aborted
  • abrogated
  • annihilated
  • annulled
  • archaic
  • asleep
  • atomized
  • avoided
  • banned
  • blacked out
  • blasted
  • blew up
  • blighted
  • blotted out
  • broke down
  • broken
  • bygone
  • called
  • called off
  • canceled
  • cancelled
  • cold
  • collapsed
  • consumed
  • countermanded
  • crashed
  • crushed
  • cut
  • dashed
  • dead
  • dead and gone
  • decayed
  • deceased
  • decimated
  • defunct
  • demolished
  • departed
  • desolated
  • destroyed
  • devastated
  • devoured
  • did away with
  • disallowed
  • disannulled
  • disappeared
  • discarded
  • disintegrated
  • dismantled
  • dismissed
  • dissipated
  • dissolved
  • ditched
  • done for
  • doomed
  • doused
  • dropped
  • dynamited
  • effaced
  • ejected
  • eliminated
  • ended
  • enjoined
  • eradicated
  • erased
  • exanimate
  • excised
  • expelled
  • expunged
  • exterminated
  • extinct
  • extinguished
  • extirpated
  • fallen
  • felled
  • finished
  • flattened
  • forbad
  • forbade
  • forgotten
  • fragmented
  • frittered
  • gone
  • gutted
  • inactive
  • incinerated
  • invalidated
  • jettisoned
  • killed
  • killed off
  • lapsed
  • late
  • lifeless
  • liquidated
  • lost
  • misspent
  • misused
  • negated
  • no longer known
  • nulled
  • nullified
  • obliterated
  • obsolete
  • ousted
  • out-of-date
  • outlawed
  • outmoded
  • overrode
  • overruled
  • overturned
  • overwhelmed
  • passed on
  • past
  • perished
  • powdered
  • prohibited
  • pulverized
  • quashed
  • ravaged
  • razed
  • recalled
  • rejected
  • removed
  • repealed
  • rescinded
  • retracted
  • reversed
  • revoked
  • rolled back
  • rubbed out
  • ruined
  • sacked
  • set aside
  • shattered
  • smashed
  • snuffed out
  • splintered
  • squandered
  • struck down
  • subverted
  • superseded
  • suspended
  • terminated
  • threw out
  • tore down
  • torn down
  • totaled
  • totalled
  • unknown
  • unremembered
  • vacated
  • vanished
  • vanquished
  • vetoed
  • void
  • voided
  • wasted
  • wiped out
  • wiped-out
  • withdrew
  • wrecked
  • wrote off
  • zapped

banged up

  • annihilated
  • broke
  • damaged
  • defaced
  • demolished
  • depredated
  • desecrated
  • despoiled
  • destroyed
  • devastated
  • graffitied
  • harmed
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • looted
  • marauded
  • marred
  • pillaged
  • plundered
  • ransacked
  • ravaged
  • ravened
  • razed
  • ruined
  • sabotaged
  • sacked
  • scourged
  • shattered
  • smashed
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • spoliated
  • tagged
  • tore down
  • totaled
  • totalled
  • trashed
  • vandalized
  • violated
  • wasted
  • wiped out
  • wracked
  • wrecked

banished

  • abandoned
  • axed
  • bounced
  • canned
  • cashiered
  • cast out
  • chased
  • defenestrated
  • deforced
  • deported
  • derelict
  • desolate
  • destitute
  • discharged
  • disinherited
  • dismissed
  • displaced
  • dispossessed
  • down-and-out
  • ejected
  • eliminated
  • evicted
  • excluded
  • excommunicated
  • exiled
  • expatriated
  • expelled
  • expulsed
  • extruded
  • fired
  • forlorn
  • forsaken
  • friendless
  • gave one the gate
  • houseless
  • itinerant
  • kicked out
  • mustered out
  • ostracized
  • ousted
  • outcast
  • outed
  • pink-slipped
  • ran off
  • ran out
  • read out
  • rejected
  • released
  • relegated
  • removed
  • repudiated
  • retired
  • routed
  • sacked
  • sent packing
  • shut out
  • spurned
  • terminated
  • threw out
  • transported
  • turned out
  • uncared-for
  • unhoused
  • unsettled
  • unsheltered
  • vagabond
  • vagrant
  • wandering
  • without a roof

canned

  • abolished
  • aborted
  • alcoholic
  • annulled
  • apish
  • arrested
  • artificial
  • axed
  • backup
  • beery
  • befuddled
  • besotted
  • bibulous
  • blasted
  • bleary-eyed
  • blind
  • blitzed
  • blockaded
  • blocked
  • blotto
  • bogus
  • bombed
  • boozy
  • bottled
  • bounced
  • braked
  • broke
  • broke off
  • broke up
  • called
  • cashiered
  • ceased
  • checked
  • clamped down
  • cockeyed
  • completed
  • concluded
  • conserved
  • copied
  • counterfeit
  • crapulous
  • cribbed
  • crocked
  • cut off
  • cut out
  • cut-and-dried
  • cut-and-dry
  • dammed
  • deactivated
  • debauched
  • deceptive
  • delayed
  • demolished
  • destroyed
  • detained
  • dipsomaniacal
  • discharged
  • discontinued
  • dismissed
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • dissolved
  • dopey
  • dopy
  • downsized
  • dropped
  • drunk
  • drunken
  • duplicated
  • emulative
  • ended
  • epigonic
  • epigonous
  • excessed
  • factitious
  • fake
  • false
  • filmed
  • finished
  • fired
  • forged
  • formulaic
  • fraudulent
  • fried
  • furloughed
  • gassed
  • gave over
  • had done with
  • halted
  • hammered
  • held
  • held back
  • high
  • hindered
  • imitation
  • imitative
  • impaired
  • impeded
  • in the bag
  • inebriate
  • inebriated
  • intoxicated
  • juiced
  • kept
  • kiboshed
  • kicked out
  • killed
  • knocked off
  • laid off
  • left off
  • lit
  • lit up
  • loaded
  • looped
  • man-made
  • maudlin
  • mimetic
  • mimic
  • misleading
  • mock
  • mustered out
  • obstructed
  • oiled
  • paused
  • perfunctory
  • photocopied
  • pickled
  • pie-eyed
  • pink-slipped
  • plagiarized
  • plastered
  • potted
  • prerecorded
  • put the kibosh on
  • quit
  • quitted
  • reduplicated
  • released
  • removed
  • reproduced
  • retired
  • ripped
  • rocky
  • routine
  • ruined
  • sacked
  • scuttled
  • sent packing
  • separated
  • sham
  • shut off
  • simulated
  • slavish
  • sloshed
  • smashed
  • snuffed
  • sottish
  • soused
  • sozzled
  • squashed
  • squelched
  • squiffed
  • squiffy
  • stamped
  • stanched
  • staunched
  • stayed
  • stemmed
  • stewed
  • stiff
  • stinking
  • stoned
  • stopped
  • strung out
  • stunted
  • stupefied
  • substitute
  • suppressed
  • suspended
  • synthetic
  • tanked
  • taped
  • terminated
  • three sheets in the wind
  • three sheets to the wind
  • threw out
  • tiddly
  • tight
  • tipsy
  • transcribed
  • trimmed
  • turned back
  • turned off
  • under the influence
  • under the weather
  • uninspired
  • unoriginal
  • unseated
  • wasted
  • wet
  • wiped out

ejected

  • axed
  • banished
  • belched
  • bounced
  • canned
  • cashiered
  • cast
  • cast out
  • chased
  • defenestrated
  • deforced
  • deported
  • detached
  • discharged
  • disgorged
  • dislodged
  • dismissed
  • displaced
  • dispossessed
  • eliminated
  • emanated
  • emitted
  • eructed
  • erupted
  • evacuated
  • evicted
  • excised
  • exhaled
  • exiled
  • expatriated
  • expelled
  • expunged
  • extirpate
  • extracted
  • extruded
  • fired
  • flung
  • freed
  • furloughed
  • gave one the gate
  • gushed
  • heaved
  • hove
  • hurled
  • issued
  • jetted
  • kicked out
  • laid-off
  • launched
  • let go
  • mustered out
  • ostracized
  • ousted
  • outed
  • pink-slipped
  • pitched
  • poured
  • ran off
  • read out
  • recalled
  • released
  • removed
  • replaced
  • retired
  • routed
  • sacked
  • sent away
  • sent home
  • sent packing
  • shot
  • shut out
  • spat
  • spewed
  • spit
  • spouted
  • sprang
  • sprung
  • spurted
  • squirted
  • streamed
  • surged
  • terminated
  • threw out
  • tossed
  • turned out
  • vented
  • withdrawn

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