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Saps

noun
Word Frequency: 0.3

Definitions

1.nounThe juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2.nounThe sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3.nounAny juice.
4.nounVitality.
5.nounA naive person; a simpleton
6.verbTo drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
7.verbTo exhaust the vitality of.
8.nounA short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
9.verbTo strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
10.nounA 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.
11.verbTo subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
12.verbTo pierce with saps.
13.verbTo make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
14.verbTo gradually weaken.
"he saps my energy"
15.verbTo proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

Synonyms

milksopsapheaddraincoshexhaustuse uptirerun downmugginstomfoolfoolblackjack

Rhymes With

collapselapseelapseperhapsrelapsesnapsscrapschaps
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