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Substantiivi

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
2. (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.
3. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
4. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
5. Any juice.
6. (figurative) Vitality.
7. (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.

Verbi

1. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.
2. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
3. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
4. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
5. (transitive) To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).
6. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
7. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
8. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.