sap

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1. sap - Noun

2. sap - Verb

3. Sap - Proper 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.

A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.

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 proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

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.

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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci

Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out? Groucho Marx

The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all. Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Etty Hillesum

All Nature's wildness tells the same story: the shocks and outbursts of earthquakes, volcanoes, geysers, roaring, thundering waves and floods, the silent uprush of sap in plants, storms of every sort, each and all, are the orderly, beauty-making love-beats of Nature's heart. John Muir

Spring is in the air. The sap rises in the spring. Spanish Proverb

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