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sap
1. noun /sæp/
a) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
b) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
2. verb /sæp/
a) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

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

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

Ring out the grief that saps the mind,/


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