sap
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
sap
n 1: a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that
circulates through the vascular system of a plant
2: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: {fool}, {sap},
{saphead}, {muggins}, {tomfool}]
3: a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle;
used for hitting people [syn: {blackjack}, {cosh}, {sap}]
v 1: deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out
our strength" [syn: {run down}, {exhaust}, {play out},
{sap}, {tire}]
2: excavate the earth beneath
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sap \Sap\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sapped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Sapping}.] [F. saper (cf. Sp. zapar, It. zapare), fr. sape a
sort of scythe, LL. sappa a sort of mattock.]
1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to
undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods,
Their houses fell upon their household gods.
--Dryden.
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2. (Mil.) To pierce with saps.
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3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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Ring out the grief that saps the mind. --Tennyson.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sap \Sap\, n. [AS. saep; akin to OHG. saf, G. saft, Icel. safi;
of uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to
be wise, sapa must or new wine boiled thick. Cf. {Sapid},
{Sapient}.]
1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending
and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to
nutrition.
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Note: 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.
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2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. [Slang]
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{Sap ball} (Bot.), any large fungus of the genus Polyporus.
See {Polyporus}.
{Sap green}, a dull light green pigment prepared from the
juice of the ripe berries of the {Rhamnus catharticus}, or
buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.
{Sap rot}, the dry rot. See under {Dry}.
{Sap sucker} (Zool.), any one of several species of small
American woodpeckers of the genus {Sphyrapicus},
especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker ({Sphyrapicus
varius}) of the Eastern United States. They are so named
because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the
sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers.
{Sap tube} (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sap \Sap\, n. (Mil.)
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.
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{Sap fagot} (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in
sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before
the parapet is made.
{Sap roller} (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long,
filled with fascines, which the sapper sometimes rolls
along before him for protection from the fire of an enemy.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
205 Moby Thesaurus words for "sap":
abate, abri, approach trench, asshole, attenuate, axiom, babe,
beverage, blood, blunt, boob, booby, bore, bunker, burrow, center,
chump, cinch, communication trench, core, countermine, coupure,
cramp, credulous person, cripple, cull, damp, dampen, deaden,
debilitate, delve, dematerialize, deplete, destroy, devitalize,
dig, dig out, dike, ding-a-ling, dingbat, dingdong, disable,
disembody, distillate, distillation, ditch, double sap, drain,
dredge, drill, drink, drive, dugout, dull, dupe, easy mark,
easy pickings, elixir, enervate, enfeeble, entrenchment, essence,
essential, etherealize, eviscerate, excavate, exhaust, extenuate,
fabric, fall guy, fire trench, fish, flower, fluid, fluid extract,
fluid mechanics, flying sap, focus, fool, fortified tunnel, fosse,
foxhole, fundamental, furrow, gallery, galoot, gist, gobe-mouches,
goof, gouge, gouge out, gravamen, greener, greenhorn, greeny,
groove, grub, gruel, gudgeon, gull, heart, honeycomb, hydraulics,
hydrogeology, hypostasis, inner essence, innocent, jerk, jerk-off,
juice, kernel, klutz, knock out, latex, lay low, leadpipe cinch,
liquid, liquid extract, liquor, lower, mark, marrow, material,
matter, meat, medium, milk, mine, mitigate, moat, monkey, mutt,
nub, nucleus, nuts and bolts, overset, overthrow, overturn,
parallel, patsy, pigeon, pith, plaything, postulate, principle,
prize sap, pushover, quarry, quid, quiddity, quintessence, rarefy,
rattle, reduce, ruin, sabotage, sap the foundations, saphead,
sawney, schlemiel, scoop, scoop out, scrabble, scrape, scratch,
semiliquid, shake, shake up, shovel, sink, sitting duck,
slit trench, soften up, soul, spade, spirit, spiritualize, stooge,
stuff, substance, subtilize, subvert, sucker, sum and substance,
the nitty-gritty, throw down, throw over, toy, trench, trough,
trusting soul, tunnel, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve,
unstrengthen, unstring, upend, upset, victim, water, weaken, whey,
wreck
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