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What does sap mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sap? Here's what it means.

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. (slang, countable) a naive person; a simpleton
Noun
  1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
Verb
  1. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
Noun
  1. (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.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  2. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
  3. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
  5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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