Definition of Sap
1. Noun. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant.
2. Verb. Deplete. "They sap the money "; "We quickly played out our strength"
Related verbs: Play Out
Generic synonyms: Consume, Deplete, Eat, Eat Up, Exhaust, Run Through, Use Up, Wipe Out
Derivative terms: Exhaustion, Sapper
3. Noun. A person who lacks good judgment.
Specialized synonyms: Ass, Buffoon, Clown, Flibbertigibbet, Foolish Woman, Fucker, Bozo, Cuckoo, Fathead, Goof, Goofball, Goose, Jackass, Twat, Zany, Meshuggeneh, Meshuggener, Morosoph, Putz, Wally
Generic synonyms: Simple, Simpleton
Derivative terms: Fool, Fool
4. Verb. Excavate the earth beneath.
5. Noun. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people.
Definition of Sap
1. n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. v. t. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
3. v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
4. 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.
Definition of Sap
1. to deplete or weaken gradually [v SAPPED, SAPPING, SAPS]
Medical Definition of Sap
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1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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.
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