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| sap | |
| 1. sost. succo, linfa, melassa | |
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| sap | |
| 1. subst. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. |  |
| 2. subst. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. |  |
| 3. subst. Any juice. |  |
| 4. subst. (figurative) Vitality. |  |
| 5. subst. (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. subst. (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. subst. (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. |  |
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| linfa | |
| 1. subst. (botany) sap |  |
| 2. subst. (anatomy) lymph |  |