The Meaning of sap

• (n.) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
• (n.) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
• (n.) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
• (v. t.) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• (v. t.) To pierce with saps.
• (v. t.) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• (v. i.) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
• (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.

Synonyms

fool , saphead , muggins , tomfool , blackjack , cosh , run down , exhaust , play out , tire

Homophones

sapp

Rhymes

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