Sap

Noun

 * 1)  The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
 * 2)  The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
 * 3)  A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.

Derived terms

 * crude sap
 * elaborated sap
 * sap ball
 * sap green
 * saphead


 * sapling
 * sap poison
 * sap rot
 * sapsucker
 * sap tube

Noun

 * 1)  A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

Verb

 * 1)  To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

Noun

 * 1)  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.

Derived terms

 * sap fagot
 * sap roller
 * sapper

Verb

 * 1)  To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
 * 2) * John Dryden
 * Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
 * 1)  To pierce with saps.
 * 2) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
 * 3) * 1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells
 * Ring out the grief that saps the mind,/
 * 1)  To gradually weaken.
 * 2) * to sap one’s conscience
 * 3)  To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
 * 4) * The Tatler
 * Both assaults carried on by sapping.

Adjectives for Sap
torpid; impregnate; sciential; tasty,

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From sæp:, from  (cf. East Frisian/Dutch sap:, German Saft:, Icelandic safi:), from,  (cf. Welsh sybwydd:wydd 'fir', Latin sapa:, Russian сопли:, Armenian համ:, Avestan višāpa 'having poisonous juices', Sanskrit undefined: 'juice, nectar'), from *sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Etymology 2
Probably from sapling:.

Etymology 3
From saper: (compare Spanish zapar: and Italian zappare:) from sape:, from  sappa:.

Noun

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 * Korean: 즙 (汁, jeub, jeup), 수액 (樹液, suaeg, -aek)
 * Norwegian: sevje
 * Portuguese: seiva
 * Russian: сок (sok)
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Dutch:, spinthout
 * German: Mantelholz, Splint


 * Italian:
 * Russian: сок (sok), живица (živíca)


 * Dutch: slappeling, imbeciel, ,
 * Finnish:
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Norwegian:


 * : succo

Noun

 * Dutch: ploertendoder


 * Italian:

Verb

 * Dutch: knuppelen

Noun

 * Finnish: juoksuhauta (most often “juoksuhauta” would translate into English as “trench”. In Finnish the same word covers also “sap”.)

Verb

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 * Dutch:, aan,


 * Russian: ,


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Anagrams

 * APS
 * asp, ASP
 * pas, Pas, PAs
 * Psa., PSA
 * spa, Spa

Noun

 * 1) sap (fluid in plants)
 * 2)  juice

Etymology
From sap. Cognate to English sap: and German Saft: (from Old High German saf).

Derived terms

 * sinaasappelsap

Anagrams

 * pas

Noun
sap


 * 1) snake

Noun
sap


 * 1) shaft

Etymology
From sap, from.

Noun

 * 1) wisdom

Etymology
sapiō, "I am wise."