Definitions for SAP

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SAP sap

Spelling: [sap]

IPA: /sæp/

Sap is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in SAP (aps).

Definitions for SAP

noun

1. the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
2. any vital body fluid.
3. energy; vitality.
4. sapwood.
5. Slang. a fool; dupe.
6. Metallurgy. soft metal at the core of a bar of blister steel.
7. Fortification. a deep, narrow trench constructed so as to form an approach to a besieged place or an enemy's position.

verb (used with object)

1. to drain the sap from.
2. Fortification. to approach (a besieged place or an enemy position) by means of deep, narrow trenches protected by gabions or parapets. to dig such trenches in (ground).
3. to undermine; weaken or destroy insidiously.

verb (used without object)

1. Fortification. to dig a sap.

Origin of SAP

before 900; Middle English; Old English sæp; cognate with Dutch sap; akin to German Saft juice, Old Norse safi; in def. 5 a shortening of saphead

Examples for SAP

Methinks, Alleyne, it is this learning which you have taught her that has taken all the life and sap from her.

I think he was glad when we set out for my own village in the Moon of the sap Running.

Women have yet this lesson to learn: the capacity for sense-experience is the sap of life.

AQAP wants to drag America into what it calls another “bleeding war” like Afghanistan and Iraq to sap American resources and will.

Each century had renewed the city's glory as with the sap of immortal youth.

I cannot perceiue what time they would haue the sap to descend.

An increase in the dividend tax rate is likely to sap the value of stocks whose main appeal is the dividends they throw off.

Put another way, the termination of these benefits will sap $30 billion from the buying power of lower-income American consumers.

Like a picador, he takes his time to sap the strength of his foes before clubbing them unconscious.

Anybody with any sap running will probably be out of step with the general parade, at least early on.