Pillage vs. Sack — What's the Difference?

To rob of goods by force, especially in time of war; plunder.

A large bag made of a strong material such as hessian, thick paper, or plastic, used for storing and carrying goods.

To take as spoils.

A woman's short loose unwaisted dress, typically narrowing at the hem, popular especially in the 1950s.

To take spoils by force.

Dismissal from employment

The act of pillaging.

Bed, especially as regarded as a place for sex.

Something pillaged; spoils.

A base.

(ambitransitive) To loot or plunder by force, especially in time of war.

An act of tackling of a quarterback behind the line of scrimmage.

The spoils of war.

The pillaging of a town or city

The act of pillaging.

A dry white wine formerly imported into Britain from Spain and the Canaries.

The act of pillaging; robbery.

Dismiss from employment

That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty.

Tackle (a quarterback) behind the line of scrimmage

To strip of money or goods by open violence; to plunder; to spoil; to lay waste; as, to pillage the camp of an enemy.

Put into a sack or sacks

To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage.

(chiefly in historical contexts) plunder and destroy (a captured town or building)

Goods or money obtained illegally

A bag, especially one made of strong material for holding grain or objects in bulk.

The act of stealing valuable things from a place;

The amount that a sack can hold

Steal goods; take as spoils;

Also sacque A short loose-fitting garment for women and children.

(Slang) Dismissal from employment

(Informal) A bed, mattress, or sleeping bag

(Baseball) A base.

(Football) A successful attempt at sacking the quarterback.

The looting or pillaging of a captured city or town.

Any of various light, dry, strong wines from Spain and the Canary Islands, imported to England in the 1500s and 1600s.

To place into a sack

(Slang) To discharge from employment

(Football) To tackle (a quarterback attempting to pass the ball) behind the line of scrimmage.

To rob (a town, for example) of goods or valuables, especially after capture.

A bag; especially a large bag of strong, coarse material for storage and handling of various commodities, such as potatoes, coal, coffee; or, a bag with handles used at a supermarket, a grocery sack; or, a small bag for small items, a satchel.

The amount a sack holds; also, an archaic or historical measure of varying capacity, depending on commodity type and according to local usage; an old English measure of weight, usually of wool, equal to 13 stone (182 pounds), or in other sources, 26 stone (364 pounds).

(uncountable) The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

(uncountable) Loot or booty obtained by pillage.

(American football) A successful tackle of the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage. See verb sense⁴ below.

(baseball) One of the square bases anchored at first base, second base, or third base.

(informal) Dismissal from employment, or discharge from a position, usually as give (someone) the sack or get the sack. See verb sense⁵ below.

Bed (either literally or figuratively); usually as hit the sack or in the sack. See also sack out.

(dated) (also sacque) A kind of loose-fitting gown or dress with sleeves which hangs from the shoulders, such as a gown with a Watteau back or sack-back, fashionable in the late 17th to 18th century; or, formerly, a loose-fitting hip-length jacket, cloak or cape.

(dated) A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

The scrotum.

(dated) A variety of light-colored dry wine from Spain or the Canary Islands; also, any strong white wine from southern Europe; sherry.

Alternative spelling of sac

To put in a sack or sacks.

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

To plunder or pillage, especially after capture; to obtain spoils of war from.

(American football) To tackle the quarterback behind the line of scrimmage, especially before he is able to throw a pass.

To discharge from a job or position; to fire.

A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.

A bag for holding and carrying goods of any kind; a receptacle made of some kind of pliable material, as cloth, leather, and the like; a large pouch.

A measure of varying capacity, according to local usage and the substance. The American sack of salt is 215 pounds; the sack of wheat, two bushels.

Originally, a loosely hanging garment for women, worn like a cloak about the shoulders, and serving as a decorative appendage to the gown; now, an outer garment with sleeves, worn by women; as, a dressing sack.

A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.

See 2d Sac, 2.

Bed.

The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.

To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.

To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.

A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases

An enclosed space;

The quantity contained in a sack

Any of various light dry strong white wine from Spain and Canary Islands (including sherry)

A woman's full loose hiplength jacket

A hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swing easily

A loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist

The plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter;

The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

Plunder (a town) after capture;

Terminate the employment of;

Make as a net profit;

Put in a sack;