sap
The word “sap” has 1 syllable: sap.
It's pronounced as /sæp/.
What is synonym and antonym for sap?
In the thesaurus, “sap” has 30 synonyms and 33 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for sap along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for sap
- agility
- baton
- blunt
- cane
- deplete
- destroy
- drain
- energy
- erode
- exhaust
- fitness
- gas
- health
- healthiness
- heartiness
- impair
- juice
- ruin
- soften
- stamina
- strength
- sucker
- undermine
- vigor
- vitiate
- waste
- weaken
- wellness
- wholesomeness
- wreck
Antonyms for sap
- aid
- assist
- build
- cheat
- cheater
- confidence man
- construct
- create
- debility
- dodger
- energize
- fill
- fortify
- help
- illness
- indolence
- laziness
- lethargy
- listlessness
- recruit
- repair
- shark
- sharper
- sickness
- slicker
- sluggishness
- strengthen
- swindler
- tenderness
- torpidity
- trickster
- unsoundness
- weakness
Meanings of sap
- noun
- 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.
- A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- 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.
- verb
- To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- To exhaust the vitality of.
- To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- 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.
- To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Example Sentences
- The tree's sap began to flow as the temperature warmed up in the spring.
- She accidentally touched the sap from the pine tree, which left a sticky residue on her hands.
- The workers tapped the maple trees to collect sap for making syrup.
- The sap from certain plants is used in traditional medicine for its healing properties.
- The intense heat caused the sap to ooze from the bark of the tree.
On this page you'll find 63 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sap, such as: agility, aid, assist, baton, blunt, build, cane.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
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