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uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the

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uncertain origin; possibly akin to L. sapere to taste, to be wise, 1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition. Note: The ascending is the crude sap, the assimilation of which takes place in the leaves, when it becomes the elaborated sap suited to the growth of the plant. 2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree. 3. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop. Sap ball , any large fungus of the genus Polyporus. See Polyporus. -- Sap green, a dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus catharticus, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists. -- Sap rot, the dry rot. See under Dry. -- Sap sucker , any one of several species of small American woodpeckers of the genus Sphyrapicus, especially the yellow-bellied woodpecker of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. -- Sap tube , a vessel that conveys sap.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SAP)

• Undermine
• Sap
• subvert
• counteract
• baffle
• thwart
• Weaken
• Debilitate
• enfeeble
• enervate
• dilute
• impair
• paralyze
• attenuate
• sap

Related words: (words related to SAP)

• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DILUTENESS
  The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
• COUNTERACT
  To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
• PARALYZE
  1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• IMPAIRER
  One who, or that which, impairs.
• ENFEEBLER
  One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
• UNDERMINER
  One who undermines.
• BAFFLEMENT
  The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• DILUTER
  One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• SUBVERTEBRAL
  Situated beneath, or on the ventral side of, the vertebral column; situated beneath, or inside of, the endoskeleton; hypaxial; hyposkeletal.
• BAFFLE
  tasteless, abashed, jaded, Icel. bagr uneasy, poor, or bagr, n., struggle, bægja to push, treat harshly, OF. beffler, beffer, to mock, 1. To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight. He by the heels him hung upon a tree,
• DEBILITATE
  To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
• THWARTNESS
  The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.
• WEAKEN
  1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands
• THWARTLY
  Transversely; obliquely.
• ATTENUATE
  1. To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies. 2. To make thin or less consistent; to render less viscid or dense; to rarefy. Specifically:
• ENFEEBLEMENT
  The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
• OVERTHWARTLY
  In an overthwart manner;across; also, perversely. Peacham.