sap
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(uncountable)The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- 2.
(uncountable)The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Any juice.
- 4.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative) Vitality.
- 5.
(countable, slang)A naive person; a simpleton.
Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
Đồng nghĩa: milksop, saphead
- 6.
(military) 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.
- 7.
(US, countable, slang)A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
- 2.
(transitive)To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
- 3.
(transitive)To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- 4.
(transitive)To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
to sap one’s conscience
He saps my energy.
- 5.
(transitive)(transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- 6.
(transitive)To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- 7.
(slang, transitive)To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
[A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly — they drag him out of sight.
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From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (juice, sap), from *sap (sap, juice) (compare sap, Saft, safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (to taste) (compare sybwydd syb-wydd, sapa,, համ, 𐬬𐬌𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀,). More at sage.