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sap

/sæp/
noun
  1. The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

  2. The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

  3. Any juice.

Synonymsmilksop, saphead
verb
  1. To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

  2. To exhaust the vitality of.

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