sack (2) — OET

sack2

verb

Edward I sacked the town in 1296:

ravage, lay waste, devastate, ransack, strip, fleece, plunder, pillage, loot, rob, raid;

literary despoil;

archaic spoil, reave;

rare depredate, spoliate, forage.

noun

after the sack of the city the cathedral fell into decay:

laying waste, ransacking, plunder, plundering, sacking, looting, ravaging, pillage, pillaging, devastation, depredation, stripping, robbery, robbing, raiding;

literary despoiling, rape, rapine, ravin;

rare spoliation.

sack (2) Oxford Dictionary of English