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alter
Verb
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If you alter something, you change it, usually in a small way.
The design can be easily altered by selecting new colours, materials, etc.
But not even a good cleaning would alter the fact that the room was dark and unfriendly.
Because he was so short, he always needed to have his pants altered to fit him.
sack
Noun
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A sack is a bag used to hold things.
She opened the brown paper sack and put the shopping in it.
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To sack is to plunder and pillage a captured town or city.
The sack of Rome.
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The sack is a slang word for bed.
I'm tired. I think I'll hit the sack and get some sleep.
sack
Verb
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To plunder or pillage a captured town or city.
The barbarians sacked Rome.