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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.
 mahla
  • (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
 hölmö, tollo, tomppeli
  • (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
 nila

sap verb

  /sæp/
  • (transitive) To gradually weaken.
 heikentää, kuluttaa
  • (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
 heikentää, uuvuttaa
  • (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
 kaivaa maata alta

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.
 katettu juoksuhauta
coconut sap
kookosmahla
birch sap
mahla
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