Sap Illustrations
Chumpnoun
An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.
‘That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.’;
Sapnoun
(uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Chumpnoun
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.’;
Sapnoun
(uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Chumpnoun
The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.
Sapnoun
Any juice.
Chumpnoun
A short, thick, heavy piece of wood.
Sapnoun
(figurative) Vitality.
Chumpnoun
a stupid person; a fool; a dolt; also, a dupe.
Sapnoun
a naive person; a simpleton
Chumpnoun
a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of
Sapnoun
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
Sapnoun
(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.
Sapverb
(transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
Sapverb
To exhaust the vitality of.
Sapverb
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Sapverb
(transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
Sapverb
To pierce with saps.
Sapverb
(transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
Sapverb
(transitive) To gradually weaken.
‘to sap one’s conscience’;
Sapverb
(intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Sapnoun
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Sapnoun
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Sapnoun
A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
Sapnoun
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.
Sapverb
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.’;
Sapverb
To pierce with saps.
Sapverb
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
‘Ring out the grief that saps the mind.’;
Sapverb
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
‘Both assaults are carried on by sapping.’;
Sapnoun
a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
Sapnoun
a person who lacks good judgment
Sapnoun
a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
Sapverb
deplete;
‘exhaust one's savings’; ‘We quickly played out our strength’;
Sapverb
excavate the earth beneath
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.
