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SAP

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Irregular inflected forms: sapped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, sapping  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting peopleplay

Synonyms:

blackjack; cosh; sap

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sap" is a kind of...):

bludgeon (a club used as a weapon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who lacks good judgmentplay

Synonyms:

fool; muggins; sap; saphead; tomfool

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("sap" is a kind of...):

simple; simpleton (a person lacking intelligence or common sense)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sap"):

ass (a pompous fool)

buffoon; clown (a rude or vulgar fool)

flibbertigibbet; foolish woman (a female fool)

fucker (a stupid despised man)

bozo; cuckoo; fathead; goof; goofball; goose; jackass; twat; zany (a man who is a stupid incompetent fool)

meshuggeneh; meshuggener ((Yiddish) a crazy fool)

morosoph (a learned fool)

putz ((Yiddish) a fool; an idiot)

wally (a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plantplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("sap" is a kind of...):

solution (a homogeneous mixture of two or more substances; frequently (but not necessarily) a liquid solution)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sap"):

manna (hardened sugary exudation of various trees)

Derivation:

sappy (abounding in sap)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they sap  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it saps  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: sapped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: sapped  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: sapping  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excavate the earth beneathplay

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "sap" is one way to...):

cave; undermine (hollow out as if making a cave or opening)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sapper (a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Depleteplay

Example:

We quickly played out our strength

Synonyms:

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "sap" is one way to...):

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Verb group:

play out (become spent or exhausted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

sapper (a military engineer who does sapping (digging trenches or undermining fortifications))

Credits

 Context examples: 

It freezes the water to prevent it running to the sea; it drives the sap out of the trees till they are frozen to their mighty hearts; and most ferociously and terribly of all does the Wild harry and crush into submission man—man who is the most restless of life, ever in revolt against the dictum that all movement must in the end come to the cessation of movement.

(White Fang, by Jack London)




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