Sap

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.
  • n. The fluid contents of a plant cell vacuole.
  • n. An essential bodily fluid.
  • n. Health and energy; vitality.
  • n. Slang A gullible person; a dupe.
  • n. A leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
  • v. To drain of sap.
  • v. To hit or knock out with a sap.
  • n. A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.
  • v. To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).
  • v. To deplete or weaken gradually.
  • verb-intransitive. To dig a sap.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • n. The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • n. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
  • n. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
  • v. To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
  • n. 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.
  • v. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • v. To pierce with saps.
  • v. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • v. To gradually weaken.
  • v. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • n. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • n. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
  • v. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • v. To pierce with saps.
  • v. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • verb-intransitive. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The juice or fluid which circulates in all plants, being as indispensable to vegetable life as is the blood to animal life.
  • n. Hence The juice or fluid the presence of which in anything is characteristic of a healthy, fresh, or vigorous condition; blood.
  • n. The alburnum of a tree; the exterior part of the wood, next to the bark; sap-wood.
  • n. Same as saphead.
  • To act like a sap; play the part of a ninny or a soft fellow.
  • n. A tool for digging; a mattock.
  • n. [⟨ sap, verb] Milit., a narrow ditch or trench by which approach is made to a fortress or besieged place when within range of fire.
  • To undermine; render unstable by digging into or eating away the foundations, or, figuratively, by some analogous insidious or invisible process; impair the stability of, by insidious means: as, to sap a wall; to sap a person's constitution, or the morals of a community.
  • Milit., to approach or pierce with saps or trenches.
  • To dig or use saps or trenches; hence, to impair stability by insidious means.
  • n. In archery, the light-colored portion of a bowstaff composed of the sap-wood. This portion forms the back of a self-bow.
  • n. A quarryman's name for rock which is partially decayed and which exhibits this quality by iron stains and other discolorations. It is usually thrown away.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
  • n. a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
  • n. a person who lacks good judgment
  • v. excavate the earth beneath
  • v. deplete
  • Verb Form
    sapped    sapping    saps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bludgeon    undermine    cave    use up    deplete    wipe out    eat    exhaust    run through    eat up   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    sapped    sapping   
    Form
    sap roller    sapper    sap fagot   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    simpleton    saphead    milksop    unsettle    weaken    juice    blood    latex    milk    undermine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    App    Capp    Jap    Lapp    Papp    Trapp    Yap    app    cap    chap   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    juice    resin    gum    syrup    bud    perfume    ooze    saliva    moisture    berry