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sap ¹  (sp)

n.

1.

a. The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.

b. The fluid contents of a plant cell vacuole.

2. An essential bodily fluid.

3. Health and energy; vitality.

4. Slang A gullible person; a dupe.

5. A leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

tr.v. sapped, sap·ping, saps

1. To drain of sap.

2. To hit or knock out with a sap.

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[Middle English, from Old English sæp.]

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sap ²  (sp)

n.

A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.

v. sapped, sap·ping, saps

v.tr.

1. To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).

2. To deplete or weaken gradually.

v.intr.

To dig a sap.

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[Obsolete French sappe or Italian zappa, hoe, from Old French and Old Italian, both from Late Latin sappa.]

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sap ¹

Noun

1. a thin liquid that circulates in a plant, carrying food and water

2. Slang a gullible person

Verb

[sapping, sapped]

to drain of sap [Old English sæp]

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sap ²

Verb

[sapping, sapped]

1. to weaken or exhaust the strength or confidence of

2. to undermine (an enemy position) by digging saps

Noun

a deep and narrow trench used to approach or undermine an enemy position [Italian zappa spade]

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sap  (sp)

1. The watery fluid that circulates through a plant that has vascular tissues. Sap moving up the xylem carries water and minerals, while sap moving down the phloem carries water and food.

2. See cell sap.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sap - a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant manna - hardened sugary exudation of various trees solution - a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution; "he used a solution of peroxide and water"
	2.	sap - a person who lacks good judgment     fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool ass - a pompous fool buffoon, clown - a rude or vulgar fool flibbertigibbet, foolish woman - a female fool fucker - a stupid despised man bozo, cuckoo, fathead, goof, goofball, jackass, twat, zany, goose - a man who is a stupid incompetent fool meshuggeneh, meshuggener - (Yiddish) a crazy fool morosoph - a learned fool putz - (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot simpleton, simple - a person lacking intelligence or common sense wally - a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid
	3.	sap - a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people cosh, blackjack bludgeon - a club used as a weapon
Verb	1.	sap - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength" play out, exhaust, tire, run down play out - become spent or exhausted; "The champion's strength played out fast" deplete, use up, wipe out, eat up, exhaust, run through, eat, consume - use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
	2.	sap - excavate the earth beneath cave, undermine - hollow out as if making a cave or opening; "The river was caving the banks"

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sap ¹

noun 1. juice, essence, vital fluid, secretion, lifeblood, plant fluid

noun 2. (Slang) fool, jerk (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. idiot, noodle, wally (slang) wet Brit. (informal) charlie Brit. (informal) drip (informal) gull (archaic) prat (slang) plonker (slang) noddy, twit (informal) chump (informal) oaf, simpleton, nitwit (informal) ninny, nincompoop, dweeb U.S. (slang) wuss (slang) Simple Simon, weenie U.S. (informal) muggins Brit. (slang) eejit Scot., Irish dumb-ass (slang) numpty Scot. (informal) doofus (slang), chiefly U.S. nerd or nurd (slang) numskull or numbskull, dorba or dorb Austral. (slang) bogan Austral. (slang)

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sap ²

verb weaken, drain, undermine, rob, exhaust, bleed, erode, deplete, wear down, enervate, devitalize

Translations

sap [sæp] n [of plants] → savia

vt [+ strength] → minar, agotar

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sap [sæp] n [of plants] → sève f

vt [+ strength] → saper, miner

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sap [sæp] n → Saft m

vt (strength) → zehren an +dat;

(confidence) → untergraben

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sap [sæp] n [of plants] → linfa

vt [+ strength] → fiaccare

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sap¹

n sap [sӕp]

the liquid in trees, plants etc The sap flowed out when he broke the stem of the flower. sap, gom عُصارَة الشَّجَر бот. мъзга míza saft der Saft χυμός φυτών savia mahl شيره گياهي mahla sève לֶשֶד रस, सार biljni sok nedv getah (æða)safi linfa 樹液 수액(樹液) sultys, sula (auga) sula sap sap sevje, plantesaft sok (roślinny) seiva sevă сок miazga, šťava rastlinski sok, mezga biljni sok sav, växtsaft ยางไม้; น้ำเลี้ยงต้นไม้ öz su 樹液 сік рослин, живиця پودوں کے اندر کی رطوبت nhựa cây 树液