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saps

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saps

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Because it is a word with a single syllable, saps is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.

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Definitions ofsaps

1noun
  • The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • Any juice.
  • Vitality.
  • A naive person; a simpleton

    Synonyms: milksop, saphead

1verb
  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
  • To exhaust the vitality of.
1noun
  • A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
1verb
  • To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
1noun
  • 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.
1verb
  • To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  • To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • To gradually weaken.

    Example: "he saps my energy"

  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

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