sap

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.

In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.

A naive person; a simpleton.

Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.

"Or trying to reproduce it." "The Mafia wouldn't do that." "Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would." Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro.

To exhaust the vitality of.

Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.

While Tuchel 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.

To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).

To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]

To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality).

to sap one’s conscience

He saps my energy.

To pierce with saps.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.

To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.