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sap noun

  /sæp/
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Saft
  • (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
Einfaltspinsel, Heulsuse, Simpel
  • (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
Mantelholz, Splint

sap verb

  /sæp/
  • (transitive) To gradually weaken.
aufzehren, erschöpfen

sap noun

  /sæp/
  • (military) 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.
Laufgraben
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