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sack, n. [bag], [pouch]; [pillage], [plunder], [rapine], [havoc], [devastation], spoliation.

sack, v. [devastate], [plunder], [pillage], [ravage], despoil, [loot], [rapine], [strip].

sacred, a. consecrated, [hallowed]; venerable, [sainted], [religious]; inviolable.

sacredness, n. [sanctity], [holiness]; inviolability, inviolableness.

sacrifice, n. oblation, immolation; [surrender], [loss], giving up; holocaust; hecatomb.

sacrifice, v. [offer], immolate; [surrender], [give up], [forego].

sacrilege, n. [desecration], profanation, [violation].

sacrilegious, a. impious, [profane], irreverent.

sad, a. [sorrowful], [pathetic], [plaintive], [doleful], [piteous], [lugubrious], [rueful], [mournful], [dismal], [funereal], [gloomy], [melancholy], [disconsolate], dejected, [touching]; [calamitous], deplorable, [grievous], dire, afflictive, [wretched], saturnine, [grave], [sober]; [dull], sombre, [subdued]; (Colloq.) [bad], [naughty], [troublesome], mischievous, [vexatious].