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sap

/sæp/

noun

Meaning

  • The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

  • The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

  • Any juice.

  • Vitality.

  • A naive person; a simpleton

Synonyms

milksop,
saphead

verb

Meaning

  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

  • To exhaust the vitality of.