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sable, adj. black, jet, jetty, jet-black; pitch, black as pitch, pitch-black, pitch-dark; inky, black as ink; raven, raven-black; coal-black; black or dark as night.

sabotage, n. 1. treachery, subversion, treason; impairment, damage, harm, hurt, detriment, mischief, Brit. Inf rattening; disablement, incapacitation.
-v. 2. subvert, undermine, sap, sap the foundations of [s.t.]; hurt, harm, impair, damage; incapacitate, disable; hinder, hamper; cripple, lame, hamstring; spoil, ruin, dash, scotch; wreck, Inf throw a wrench or a monkey wrench into the works, Brit. Inf. ratten; All Sl. bugger, queer, queer the works, gum up or screw up the works, foul up.

sac, n. baglike structure, pocket, pouch, Anat., Zool. bursa, Anat., Zool. capsule; vesicle, cyst; bladder, Anat. vesica; blister, bleb; Bot. cell, Bot. theca, Biol., Anat. loculus; Both Anat. saccule, sacculus; pod, seed vessel, legume, Bot. follicle, Bot. silique, pericarp, utricle; cuplike part, cavity, Anat., Zool. calyx.

saccharine, adj. 1. sweet, sweetened, sugary, sugared, honey, honeyed, sweet as sugar or honey; candied, nectared, nectarous, nectareous, nectarean, confectionary; rich, luscious, delicious.
2. oversweet, cloying, sickening, nauseating, syrupy, mawkish, sentimental, maudlin, Inf. mushy, Brit. Sl. soppy.

sacerdotal, adj. priestly, hieratic, hieratical; episcopal, vicarly, prelatic, papal, pontifical, apostolic; pastoral, ministerial, clerical; ecclesiastical, churchly, hierarchic, hierarchical; sacred, divine, holy, consecrated.

sacerdotalism, n. hierarchy, hierocracy, hierarchism; prelacy, prelatism, clericalism, episcopacy, papalism, papality, papacy, theocracy; Usu. Disparaging, priestcraft.

sack¹, n. 1. bag, pouch, Midland U.S. and Scot. poke, Chiefly Scot. pocket, Obs. budget; pack, packet, satchel; purse, grip, valise, carpetbag; saddlebag, Southwestern U.S. alforja; backpack, knapsack, kitbag, haversack, rucksack; gunnysack, gunny-bag, duffel bag; mailbag, mail pouch.
2. U.S. Slang, bed, bunk, cot, Brit, lair, Brit. Sl. kip.
3. Slang, discharge, walking papers, Inf bounce, Sl. boot, Sl. pink slip; Sl. the bum's rush, Sl. heave-ho.
4. hit the sack Slang, go to bed, go to sleep, retire, turn in, bed down, Sl. hit the hay, Sl. sack out; nap, snooze, Sl. conk out.
-v. 5. bag, pocket, pouch.
6. Slang, fire, dismiss, put out of a job, let go, lay off, give [s.o.] his walking papers, Inf. bounce, Inf. give [s.o.] the sack, Inf. send down the road, Sl. can,