sap

suomi-englanti sanakirja

sap englannista suomeksi

The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Any juice.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton.

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(quote-song)
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
To exhaust the vitality of.
(quote-web) will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, ''The Big Sleep'' (screenplay)

I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.

As 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.

{{quote-text|en|year=1964|author=Raymond Chandler|title=Killer in the Rain
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.
To subvert by digging or away|wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
(RQ:Dryden Metamorphoses)
To pierce with saps.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
{{quote-text|en|year=1850|author=Alfred Tennyson|title=Out, Wild Bells|Ring, Out, Wild Bells
To gradually weaken.

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