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sap

The correct spelling is sap.

How to pronounce sap

/sæp/
noun

IPA: /sæp/

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The correct spelling is sap. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. For example: "he saps my energy"

Usage Examples

he saps my energy

Meanings

noun

  1. 1.The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. 2.The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. 3.Any juice.
  4. 4.Vitality.
  5. 5.A naive person; a simpleton

verb

  1. 1.To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
  2. 2.To exhaust the vitality of.
  3. 3.To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
  4. 4.To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  5. 5.To pierce with saps.

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