Chump vs. Sap — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chump and Sap
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Chump
A gullible person; a dupe.
Sap
Sap is a fluid transported in xylem cells (vessel elements or tracheids) or phloem sieve tube elements of a plant. These cells transport water and nutrients throughout the plant.
Chump
A stupid or foolish person; a dolt.
Sap
The watery fluid that circulates through a plant, carrying food and other substances to the various tissues.
Chump
To chew or make a chewing movement.
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Sap
See cell sap.
Chump
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Sap
Health and energy; vitality
The constant bickering drained his sap away.
Chump
A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.
It shouldn't be hard to put one over on that chump.
Sap
(Slang) A foolish or gullible person.
Chump
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
Sap
A covered trench or tunnel dug to a point near or within an enemy position.
Chump
Dated form of chomp
Sap
A leather-covered bludgeon with a short, flexible shaft or strap, used as a hand weapon.
Chump
A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Sap
To drain (a tree, for example) of sap.
Chump
A stupid person; a fool; a dolt; also, a dupe.
Sap
To deplete or weaken gradually
The noisy children sapped all my energy. The flu sapped him of his strength.
Chump
A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Sap
To undermine the foundations of (a fortification).
Sap
To dig a sap.
Sap
To hit or knock out with a sap.
Sap
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Sap
(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Sap
Any juice.
Sap
(figurative) Vitality.
Sap
A naive person; a simpleton
Sap
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
Sap
(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.
Sap
(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
Sap
To exhaust the vitality of.
Sap
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Sap
(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Sap
To pierce with saps.
Sap
(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Sap
(transitive) To gradually weaken.
To sap one’s conscience
He saps my energy
Sap
(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Sap
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Sap
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Sap
A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
Sap
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.
Sap
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.
Sap
To pierce with saps.
Sap
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Ring out the grief that saps the mind.
Sap
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Both assaults are carried on by sapping.
Sap
A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
Sap
A person who lacks good judgment
Sap
A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
Sap
Deplete;
Exhaust one's savings
We quickly played out our strength
Sap
Excavate the earth beneath
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