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sap

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES sap morale (= to gradually lower morale ) ▪ Knowing it was all pointless sapped my morale. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE poor ▪ An innocent bystander kneeled over. Poor sap . ▪ Just telling the poor saps was ...

Usage examples of sap.

August flares adust and torrid, But my heart is full of April Sap and sweetness.

It was as if spring laughed for joy beholding in him one that was her own child, clothed to outward view with so much loveliness and grace, but full besides to the eyes and finger-tips with fire and vital sap, like her own buds bursting in the Brankdale coppices.

But when I look into a glass, I see there an aged stranger, sapped and sagged and blemished and enfeebled by the corroding rusts of five and sixty years.

Then she took small handfuls of the doughy root starch, mixed with the berries, the sweet, flavorful licorice-fern root stalk, and the sweetening and thickening sap from the birch cambium, and dropped them on the hot rocks.

She had caulked the wood with fresh frag sap, learning that it did quite well if applied in many thin coats and allowed to dry between.

So now they hunt down any fanger, find the poor saps the vamps have infected, and let those saps know that they can fight the curse through Zera.

Somewhere toward the east, nuzzled by the Suwannee River, was Gilchrist County, which in scraggly ten-acre parcels Eugenie Fonda and Boyd Shreave had hawked over the phone to all those innocent saps.

I was surprised to find that, at a distance of less than an eighth of a mile from the latter place, the military had fixed their gabions, sapped right up the glacis, and to within four or five yards of the fosse.

Still they may have thought, by meeting Richard and his inamorata, there was a chance of laying a foundation of ridicule to sap the passion.

When the lopper had laid it bare and the woodcutters had sapped its base, five men commenced hauling at the rope attached to the top.

They sapped each navvy, powering them down enough to pry out some portable power cells, but not so far that the navvy would register a malf.

The numbing sap coated the whole surface, and she scooped it away as she examined herself.

Naked from the waist up, she spread handfuls of the numbing sap on her body, like a salve, from head to waist.

But this ontology discloses not so much what gives beings their foundation as what bears them for an instant towards a precarious form and yet is already secretly sapping them from within in order to destroy them.

I detected whiffs of pineapple and brown sugar and the burnt sugar smell of baking sweet potatoes oozing sap onto the oven floor.