sap
[noun]
Synonyms:
- vital fluid, essence, lifeblood
- fool, idiot, jerk (slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.), ninny, simpleton, twit (informal), wally (slang)
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(Informal)
[verb]
weaken, deplete, drain, exhaust, undermine

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Related Words: deplete, drain, exhaust, knock out, ruin, wreck, destroy

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I. sap¹ /sæp/ noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: sæp]

1. [uncountable] the watery substance that carries food through a plant

2. [countable] informal a stupid person who is easy to deceive or treat badly

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II. sap² verb (past tense and past participle sapped, present participle sapping) [transitive]
to make something weaker or destroy it, especially someone’s strength or their determination to do something Synonym : weaken
sap sb’s strength/courage/energy
Her long illness was gradually sapping Charlotte’s strength.

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sap
noun
VERB + SAP extract Maple syrup is made from sap extracted from the sugar maple tree.
SAP + VERB rise It was spring, and the sap was rising.

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SAP
Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (German: Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing; SAP AG)

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