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 participle | sacking |
| Third person singular | sacks /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
- 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.
- 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).
- noun The plunder and pillaging of a captured town or city.
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.
Source and license
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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