sap /sæp/noun 7verb 8forms 6 noun7 •The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. •Any juice. •(slang) A naive person; a simpleton.Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken. •(figurative) Vitality. •(US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps. — 1944 •The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. •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. verb8 •To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…] — 1850 •To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).He saps my energy. •(figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.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. — 1922 •(slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).[A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly — they drag him out of sight. — 1944 •To pierce with saps. •To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods. — 1717 •To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps. •To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.). formssapped · sapping · sappeth · saps · sappest · SAPs
SAP noun7 •Initialism of structural adjustment program. •Initialism of superabsorbent polymer. •Initialism of superabsorbent powder, made of superabsorbent polymer. •(UK) Initialism of statutory adoption pay, payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child. •(US) Initialism of special access program. •Abbreviation of second audio program. •Initialism of speech act participant. formsSAPs