Sap

Quick meaning: Sap is a noun meaning (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
2. Any juice.
3. (figurative) Vitality.
4. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
5. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
6. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
7. (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.

Example Sentences

Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]

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.

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.

Word Forms

• saps
• sapping
• sapped

Synonyms for sap

Depending on context, synonyms include milksop, saphead, fool, drain, exhaust, tomfool.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include drain, cosh, exhaust, tire, run down, muggins.

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