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sacker

1 9.5

A person who attacks a town or city and steals things

noun
/ˈsækər/

Archaic

: saqueador

Did God make you the sacker of peaceful cities, the executioner of the king's nephew, my husband's own cousin?

Examples

Did God make you the sacker of peaceful cities?

Fiction book (1995)
Local historians recount tales of the sacker who plundered their village centuries ago.
The sacker marched into the town at dawn, leaving destruction in his wake.
As a sacker, he stole valuables and burned homes during his rampage.

Synonyms

robber

vssacker

186 1.0

A person who steals from others by using or threatening to hurt them

focuses on attacking towns and plundering communities rather than individuals

bandit

vssacker

108 4.6

A person who steals from people or places, often using a weapon

usually targets towns and cities more systematically rather than group crime

looter

vssacker

43 5.3

A person who steals things from shops and homes during riots or disasters

tends to describe organized attacks on towns rather than opportunistic theft

raider

vssacker

29 5.1

A person who enters a place to steal things by force

usually focuses on town or city attacks rather than quick raids

marauder

vssacker

NSFW

16 8.8

A person who attacks places to steal things

tends to target larger settlements like towns rather than individuals

brigand

vssacker

7 9.8

A person with a weapon who steals from travelers in remote areas

typically attacks towns or cities rather than only remote travellers

plunderer

vssacker

1 7.2

A person who steals things by force from places like shops or homes during war

is focused on attacking towns or cities rather than general theft

pillager

vssacker

1 8.1

A person who steals things from places like shops, often during war

usually involves attacking populated places rather than isolated skirmishes

despoiler

vssacker

1 9.9

A person who steals valuable things by force, often during war

aims specifically at towns or cities rather than general plunder

reiver

vssacker

Archaic

1 9.9

A person who raids and steals from farms and homes in old times

applies to attacking towns specifically rather than mainly historical theft

sackman

vssacker

Archaic

9.9

A person who steals things from towns during war

has identical meaning but is the alternative form used for the same role

spoiler

vssacker

Archaic

9.5

A person who takes goods by force from people during war

is more directly about attacking towns and looting them

Antonyms

defender

252 2.8

A person who protects someone or something from harm

protector

129 2.8

A person who defends and cares for another person or thing

Compounds

first sacker

Jargon

1 7.3

A player who stands at first base and catches throws to get batters out

second sacker

Jargon

7.3

A baseball player who plays at second base

third sacker

Jargon

7.9

A baseball player who defends third base

Surface Forms

sacker singular

sackers plural

Morphology

sacker = sack (transparent) = sack + er

The word 'sacker' is transparently derived from 'sack' with the addition of the agentive suffix '-er'.

Etymology

Sacker comes from the verb sack, which grew from the image of emptying a town into a sack ('bag') after an attack, like taking goods away in bags. So a sacker is someone who attacks a place and takes its valuables.