Word Meaning

saps definition and meaning

n. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
n. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
n. A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
v. t. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
v. t. To pierce with saps.
v. t. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
v. i. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
n. 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.

Crossword clues for saps

- Aloe vera secretion
- Bludgeon to exhaust idiot
- Deplete
- Deprive of vitality
- Drain
- Drain energy
- Drain juice from plant
- Drain mug
- Drain plant fluid
- Drain vital fluid
- Fall guy
- Gullible mug
- Liquid in wood
- Odd swamp plant secretion
- Pa’s back for the plant juice
- Pine exudation
- Plant blood
- Plant juice
- Plant’s vascular fluid
- Rubber tree ooze
- Run down a fool
- Step back into drain
- Thin liquid in a plant
- Totally drain
- Tree blood
- Tree fluid
- Tree secretion
- Vital fluid
- Wally runs around trees
- Weaken
- Weaken gradually
- Exhausts
- Fall guys
- Juices of trees
- Simpletons
- Undermines
- Vital liquids of trees