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Meaning sap meaning

What does sap mean?
Definitions in simple English

sap

Sap is the liquid inside a plant that carries sugars and minerals.

sap

(= exhaust, play out) deplete exhaust one's savings We quickly played out our strength excavate the earth beneath a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant (= fool) a person who lacks good judgment (= blackjack) a piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people

Synonyms sap synonyms

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Topics sap topics

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Conjugation sap conjugation

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sap · verb

Examples sap examples

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Simple sentences

Rubber is made from the sap of the rubber tree.

Movie subtitles

But he was such a sap he didn't have sense enough to tell her.
Even you wouldn't be sap enough to go for a stroll without your gat.
He's got the layout I've been looking for, for two years. and the sap lays it right in my lap.
AND MAKE A SAP OUT OF ME IN FRONT OF MY PEOPLE?
So you're going to be a sap and fix it, huh? - What?
Why, you potbellied sap.
Sit down, or I'll use a sap on you.
Make it sound plausible, because incredible as it may seem. Mrs. Claypool isn't as big a sap as she looks.
Yes, and what a sap you've made of me.
Do you think I'm a sap?
Is he really that big a sap?
They got you down as a sap.
I don't mind you making a sap out of yourself, but you made one of me too.
Come on. Don't be a sap.
But he was such a sap, he didn't have sense enough to tell her.
Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out.
You poor sap.
Of all the sap tricks.
Oh, Denny! Come on, hurry up, you sap!
To make a sap out of me in front of my people.
Mrs. Claypool isn't as big a sap as she looks.
I knew I was a sap to believe.
I was a sap to ever doubt him.
I don't mind you making a sap out of yourself, but not out of me.
What kind of a sap is that guy?
What's the matter with this sap of yours?
I ain't so sure he's sap at all.
You sap!
Who does he think he is? To make a sap out of me in front of my people.
Don't think he'd be sap enough to do the job himself, do you?
What a muddIe-headed sap!
Besides making a blue-ribbon sap of myself today, I must have embarrassed you terribly.
Don't be a sap.
I oughta be on that train right now. What a sap I am, falling for your line. They're gonna name streets after me.

News and current affairs

But technology spreads rapidly: the same Windows or SAP programs are available in all countries, including Europe.
In the late 1940's and the 1950's, the Cold War and fears that the Red Menace would sap American resolve from within led to myriad anti-subversive programs, with tens of thousands of Americans losing their livelihoods as a result.
But many of the potential new goals lack unanimous support, and adding a lot of new goals - or goals that are not easily measurable - may sap momentum.
But the currency appreciation that follows will likely set off an unsustainable consumption boom, wreak havoc with your export sector, create unemployment, and sap your growth potential.
Military occupation saps dignity, and grinding poverty and economic disarray sap hope.
This will fuel uncertainty, sap economic confidence, and almost certainly hurt the Republicans at the polls in 2016.
With housing being such a critical driver of consumer behavior, any further substantial fall in home prices will sap confidence and lower spending.