sap

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To sap something is to drain or deplete something over time. If you sap a maple tree, you drain the liquid inside it to make maple syrup. But if you sap a person of strength, you've rendered him defenseless.

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

Noun
a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Noun
a person who lacks good judgment

Noun
a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

Verb
excavate the earth beneath

Verb
deplete; "exhaust one''s savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"

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

v. t.
To pierce with saps.

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

v. i.
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.

Sap

Sap , n. [AS. s'91p; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi; of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. Sapid, Sapient.] 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. &hand; The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. 2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang] Sap ball (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus. -- Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker (Zo'94l.), any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. -- Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.

Sap

Sap, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Saped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Sapping.] [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.] 1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods.
2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps. 3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind.

Sap

Sap , v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. W. P. Craighill.
Both assaults carried on by sapping.

Sap

Sap, n. (Mil.) 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. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.

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

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

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

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.

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Usage Examples

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

Each is under the most sacred obligation not to squander the material committed to him, not to sap his strength in folly and vice, and to see at the least that he delivers a product worthy the labor and cost which have been expended on him.