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Sap

noun

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

A person who lacks good judgment. Synonyms: fool, muggins, saphead, tomfool.

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people. Synonyms: blackjack, cosh.

verb

(past & past part. sapped; pres. part. sapping)

Deplete. Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, tire. "We quickly played out our strength"

Excavate the earth beneath.

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"Sap" Quotes from Famous Books

... along the whole of that black tunnel, feeling about her person for points where they might fasten well, as ivy or the giant parasites of the Vegetable Kingdom settle down on the trees themselves to sap their life and ...

— The Man Whom the Trees Loved • Algernon Blackwood

... electrical air and the beauty of the country had induced. After all, he was but forty-two. Life on the whole had been very kind to him. And, although he did not realize it as yet, his frame, blighted by the rigors of the past three years, was already sensible to a renewal of juice and sap. He admitted that he was more interested than he had been for many years, and that if he was not in love, he tingled with a very natural masculine desire for an ...

— Rezanov • Gertrude Atherton

... not be a deed, or a work, but a growth—a growth like a tree's, always rising higher from its own inward strength and sap. ...

— Heart's-ease • Phillips Brooks

... to run to the house to tell me about every little thing you do," the young wife explained patiently, "but these debts will not be little things when they come to be paid off, dear. Really, you don't know how they will sap you and me later on; they may even take the farm right out from under our feet. There are so many things that can happen to cattle—and interest has to be paid. That's the ...

— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger

... awa, and about a' the ill he had ever dune or said for a' the forepart o' his life, that Patie says he looked mair like ane dead than living; and they cou'dna get a word o' sense out o' him, for downright fright at their growling and routing. He maun be a saft sap, wi' a head nae better than a fozy frosted turnip—it wad hae ta'en a hantle o' them to scaur Andrew ...

— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott

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