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Meaning of 'sap' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sap [ n.]
- The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
- 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.
2 . Sap [ v. i.]
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
3 . Sap [ v. t.]
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Meaning of 'sap' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sap [ v]
Meaning (1):
- deplete
Example in sentence:
  • exhaust one's savings;
  • We quickly played out our strength

Nearby Words:

sapadillo sapajo sapajou sapan wood sapful saphead saphenous sapid sapidity sapidness

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