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Definition of sack : 1. 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.
2. 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.
3. A name formerly given to various dry Spanish wines.
4. A sack coat; a kind of coat worn by men, and extending from top to bottom without a cross seam.
5. Bed.
6. 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.
7. See 2d Sac, 2.
8. The pillage or plunder, as of a town or city; the storm and plunder of a town; devastation; ravage.
9. To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders.
10. To plunder or pillage, as a town or city; to devastate; to ravage.
11. To put in a sack; to bag; as, to sack corn.

Synonyms:

slip, advise, cease, depose, judgment of dismissal, crystalise, drone, displace, arc, fire, scoop, trailer, venting, illuminate, hillock, spillage, take in, send packing, brush off, provoke, go to sleep, go off, firing off, fracture, top, tone ending, acquit, electric discharge, shift key, slug, elicit, switching, preempt, notice, gouge, outpouring, give notice, duty period, plunder, to rest, solve, squirt, light up, freeing, switch, bring in, firing, enlighten, transmutation, net, send away, loot, rout out, displacement, shift, outlet, release, fuel, laggard, clout, shed light on, break, poke, apprise, hummock, knoll, burn, arouse, disregard, dismission, brush aside, end, poking, move, sacque, paper bag, jabbing, scoke, shimmy, ransack, theca, discharge, give the sack, authorize, rouse, boot, sackful, jab, reave, realize, send word, finish, transformation, notify, chemise, removal, expelling, sort out, eject, biff, pigeon berry, sac, unclutter, sacking, evict, web, liberation, ax, lighting, passing, exculpate, open fire, thrust, keep, exonerate, waiver, make, nett, straighten out, brighten, dissolve, going, retire, enkindle, raise, emission, earn, drive out, usher out, sack up, fault, burn down, ignition, clear, work shift, air hole, foray, give the bounce, push aside, sleep, button, faulting, carrier bag, dawdler, bagging, vent, stop, handout, electric arc, crystallize, gain, rifle, expiration, punch, spill, kindle, teddy, spark, pillage, give the axe, assoil, crystallise, rape, press release, spoil, dismissal, strip, elucidate, loss, inflammation, garget, squeeze out, air pocket, pass, pink slip, force out, clear up, bounce, run, throw out, put up, judgement of dismissal, dismiss, apprize, mound, lick, discount, acquittance, tin, give the gate, pull in, kindling, lagger, crowd out, despoil, departure, shifting, violate, geological fault, termination, crystalize, terminate, realise, exit, evoke, hammock, ignore, thrusting, authorise, drop

pack sack, satchel, bag, pocket, pouch, gunny sack, school bag, handbag, saddlebag, purse, reticule, container

closet, reservoir, cup, box, cupboard, storage, ladle, suitcase, vault, shelf, flask, chest, receptacle, cabinet, bottle, can, stomach, holder, jug, locker, pot, trunk, bladder, drawer, crate, cask, repository, belly, barrel, basket, drum, bin, wallet, tray, vat, jar, case, decanter, bowl, tank, bucket

Usage examples:

• When they resumed the trail, Jim Barlow was carried with them, very much like a sack of meal across a saddle bow. - "Dorothy on a Ranch", Evelyn Raymond.
• The servant took the sack and set out to execute the orders of his master. - "Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers", W. A. Clouston.
• I knew she was to get the sack ever since he came back. - "The Dynasts An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes", Thomas Hardy.