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sapless

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sap·less  (spls)
adj.
1. Devoid of sap; dry.
2. Lacking spirit or energy.
sapless·ness n.
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Adj.1.sapless - lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
debile, infirm, weakly, decrepit, feeble, rickety, weak
frail - physically weak; "an invalid's frail body"
2.sapless - destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
juiceless - lacking juice
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Four times did the botas bear being uplifted, but the fifth it was all in vain, for they were drier and more sapless than a rush by that time, which made the jollity that had been kept up so far begin to flag.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
The tender shoots and the expanding flowers are nipped and withered, and of a vine that yearned to stretch its tendrils round the world there is left but a sapless stump.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
They looked as if they had never known what youth or pleasure was, but had been the offspring of Nature's dotage, and always the gray, decrepit, sapless, miserable creatures, who now sat stooping round the doctor's table, without life enough in their souls or bodies to be animated even by the prospect of growing young again.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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