sap
noun
/sæp/
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- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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sap
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- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.
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idioot,
imbeciel,
simpele,
slappeling
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- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
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spint,
spinthout
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sap
verb
/sæp/
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- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
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ondermijnen,
ondergraven,
aantasten
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- (transitive) To gradually weaken.
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aantasten,
knagen,
ondermijnen
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- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
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aantasten,
ondermijnen,
verzwakken
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- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
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ondergraven,
ondermijnen
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sap
noun
/sæp/
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- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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ploertendoder
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sap
verb
/sæp/
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- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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knuppelen
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