sap
/sæp/ verb C2- To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- To gradually drain (someone's energy or vitality). · to sap one’s conscience· He saps my energy.
- To pierce with saps.
- To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
He/she/it saps · Past sapped · Past participle sapped · -ing form sapping
Verb forms
- Base form
- sap
- He/she/it
- saps
- Past
- sapped
- Past participle
- sapped
- -ing form
- sapping
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Let what may remain of revolutionary sap exhaust itself and die away with the old trunk, and condescend only to regard the young shoot which has started up at a distance from the parent tree, without having the power, any more than the wish, to separate entirely from the stock from which it sprung.”
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