Thesaurus: sap

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1. n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. n. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
3. n. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
4. v. t. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
5. v. t. To pierce with saps.
6. v. t. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
7. v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
8. n. 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.
9. n. a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
10. n. a person who lacks good judgment
11. n. a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
12. v. excavate the earth beneath