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Sap

Noun

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.
"Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken."
6.VerbTo exhaust the vitality of.
7.VerbTo drain, suck or absorb sap from .
8.VerbTo make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
9.VerbTo gradually drain .
"to sap one’s conscience; He saps my energy."
10.VerbTo pierce with saps.
11.VerbTo 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.
12.VerbTo proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
13.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.
14.NounA short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
15.VerbTo strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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