sapless

sapless
    adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a
           feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn:
           {decrepit}, {debile}, {feeble}, {infirm}, {rickety},
           {sapless}, {weak}, {weakly}]
    2: destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and
       roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
    

Sapless \Sap"less\, a.
   1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
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   2. Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat
      sapless womanhood." --Lowell.
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            Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
                                                  --Dryden.
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94 Moby Thesaurus words for "sapless":
      Saharan, anemic, anhydrous, arid, asthenic, athirst, bland,
      bloodless, bone-dry, chicken, cowardly, dead, debilitated, desert,
      dilute, diluted, driveling, drooping, droopy, droughty, dry,
      dry as dust, dull, dusty, effete, etiolated, fade, faint, faintish,
      feeble, flabby, flaccid, flat, flavorless, floppy, gone, gruelly,
      gutless, high and dry, imbecile, impotent, inane, indifferent,
      innocuous, insipid, jejune, juiceless, languid, languorous,
      like parchment, limber, limp, listless, lustless, marrowless, mild,
      milk-and-water, namby-pamby, nerveless, pappy, pithless, pooped,
      powerless, pulpy, rubbery, sandy, savorless, sinewless, slack,
      soft, spiceless, spineless, stale, strengthless, tasteless, thin,
      thirsting, thirsty, undamped, unflavored, unhardened, unnerved,
      unsavory, unstrung, unwatered, vapid, washy, watered, watered-down,
      waterless, watery, weak, weakly, wishy-washy