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/sæp/ · noun
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition..
In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.
Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
"Or trying to reproduce it." "The Mafia wouldn't do that." "Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would." Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro.
She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars
Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.
While Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.
Alcaraz flew out of the blocks in the first-to-10 match tie-break of the deciding set, sapping every last bit of Sinner's energy before sealing victory with a remarkable running forehand winner that fizzed down the line.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]
Use sap when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sap means (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition..
Common synonyms include milksop, saphead, fool, drain.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.
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