Antonyms for sap

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : sap

Phonetic Transcription : sæp

Definition of sap

Origin : "liquid in a plant," Old English sæpm from Proto-Germanic *sapam (cf. Middle Low German, Middle Dutch, Dutch sap, Old High German saf, German Saft "juice"), from PIE *sab- "juice, fluid" (cf. Latin sapere "to taste"), from root *sab- "juice, fluid" (cf. Sanskrit sabar- "sap, milk, nectar," Irish sug, Russian soku "sap," Lithuanian sakas "tree-gum"). As a verb meaning "To drain the sap from," 1725.

noun stupid person
verb squeeze out; weaken

Example sentences :

Methinks, Alleyne, it is this learning which you have taught her that has taken all the life and sap from her.
Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle

I think he was glad when we set out for my own village in the Moon of the Sap Running.
Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin

Each century had renewed the city's glory as with the sap of immortal youth.
Extract from : « The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete » by Emile Zola

Women have yet this lesson to learn: the capacity for sense-experience is the sap of life.
Extract from : « The Truth About Woman » by C. Gasquoine Hartley

I cannot perceiue what time they would haue the sap to descend.
Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

The Summer time is perillous if ye digge, because the sap fills amaine.
Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

But commonly, graft at that time of the Winter, when sap beginneth to arise.
Extract from : « A New Orchard And Garden » by William Lawson

But it's poor work for an old man to sap away a young man's enthusiasm.
Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine

But no sap could enter their roots and none could pass from cell to cell.
Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne

The faint, sweet smell of the sap seemed to cling upon the darkness.
Extract from : « The House in the Water » by Charles G. D. Roberts

Synonyms for sap

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