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| sap |
| 1. sap |
| Engels > Engels |
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| sap |
| 1. n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. |
| 2. n. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. |
| 3. n. Any juice. |
| 4. n. (figurative) Vitality. |
| 5. n. (slang) a naive person; a simpleton |
| 6. v. To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). |
| 7. v. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of. |
| 8. n. (US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack. |
| 9. v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). |
| 10. n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. |
| 11. v. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of. |
| 12. v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps. |
| 13. v. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. |
| 14. v. To gradually weaken. |
| to sap one’s conscience |
| 15. v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. |
| Nederlands > Engels |
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| sap |
| 1. n-n. juice |
| 2. n-n. sap (fluid in plants) |
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