sap

1. 1.

   deplete

   “exhaust one's savings”

   “We quickly played out our strength”

   Synonymsrun downexhaustplay outtire

   Broaderconsume
2. 2.

   excavate the earth beneath

   Broadercave

Other forms of sap

plural

saps·

past tense or participle

sapped

present participle

sapping

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sap

What does sap mean?

sap means "a watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sap?

sap has 1 syllable: sap. In IPA it is /ˈsæp/.

What is another word for sap?

Close synonyms include fool, saphead, muggins, tomfool, blackjack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sap a common word?

sap is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.