saps

noun

Meaning

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Any juice.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
To exhaust the vitality of.
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
To gradually weaken.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

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