sap

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.

figurativeVitality.

slangA naive person; a simpleton

USslangA short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

militaryA 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.

A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant

A person who lacks good judgmentperson

A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

figurativeTo exhaust the vitality of.

slangTo strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

militaryTo pierce with saps.

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

To gradually weaken.

“to sap one’s conscience”

“he saps my energy”

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

Deplete

“exhaust one's savings”

“We quickly played out our strength”

Excavate the earth beneath