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Past tense of sack

regular verb

The past tense of sack is sacked. The past participle is also sacked.

Forms of sack

Base form (V1)sack /sæk/
Past tense (V2)sacked
Past participle (V3)sacked
Present participlesacking
Third person singularsacks /sæks/

Sacked in a sentence

  • The gold was sacked in moose-hide bags, fifty pounds to the bag, and piled like so much firewood outside the spruce-bough lodge.1903 July, Jack London, “The Sounding of the Call”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &...
  • The barbarians sacked Rome in 410 CE.
  • Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.From the entry german
  • The sacked quarterback was hurting bad. His back ached so bad that he had to lie down.From the entry bad
  • He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety.From the entry safety

Meaning of sack

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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).
  3. noun The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.

Full definition of sack

Questions about the past tense of sack

What is the past tense of sack?
The past tense of sack is sacked.
What is the past participle of sack?
The past participle of sack is sacked.
Is sack a regular or irregular verb?
Sack is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sack (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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