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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- (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.
- (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
Verb
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- (transitive) To gradually weaken.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
Exempel
- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind[...]
- to sap one’s conscience
- Both assaults carried on by sapping.
- Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, Their houses fell upon their household gods.
- The excessive heat slowly sapped my strength.
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