sap

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Pronunciation
/sæp/
Noun
7 definition(s)
1 Definition

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

2 Definition

The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

3 Definition

Any juice.

4 Definition

Vitality.

5 Definition

A naive person; a simpleton

Synonyms
milksop saphead
6 Definition

A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

7 Definition

A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.

Verb
8 definition(s)
1 Definition

To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

2 Definition

To exhaust the vitality of.

3 Definition

To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

4 Definition

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

5 Definition

To pierce with saps.

6 Definition

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

7 Definition

To gradually weaken.

Example Sentences
  • he saps my energy
8 Definition

To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.