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 223 synonyms and 74 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for sap along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for sap

activeness
agility
animal spirits
animation
ardor
attenuate
bastinade
bastinado
bat
baton
beans
beetle
billy
billy club
birch
blackjack
bleed
blockhead
bloom
bludgeon
blunt
booby
bounce
brawniness
break down
brio
briskness
butt
cane
chump
cleanliness
club
crabstick
cripple
crook
crosier
crozier
cudgel
damage
dash
debilitate
deplete
depress
derision
destroy
devitalize
disable
dodo
dolt
dope
drain
drive
dumbbell
dummy
dunce
dupe
dynamism
energy
enervate
enfeeble
erode
esprit
etiolate
exhaust
fervor
fettle
fire
fitness
flush
flushness
fool
gas
gavel
get-up-and-go
ginger
go
goose
gull
gusto
half-wit
hammer
hamstring
hardihood
hardiness
harm
health
healthiness
heartiness
hickory
hurt
huskiness
hygiene
idiot
imbecile
impair
impoverish
incapacitate
injure
invalid
jackass
jauntiness
jerk
juice
knobkerrie
laughingstock
lay up
life
liveliness
loser
lunatic
lustiness
mace
main
mallet
mark
maul
metal
mettle
might
mock
mockery
monkey
moron
moxie
mug
muscle
nightstick
nincompoop
ninny
nitwit
oomph
paralyze
passion
patsy
pep
pigeon
potency
power
prostrate
puissance
punch
pushover
rattan
rob
robustiousness
robustness
rod
ruggedness
ruin
rung
schlemiel
schlub
schlump
schnook
shape
shillalah
shillelagh
shlemiel
shlub
simp
simpleton
sledgehammer
snap
snappiness
soft touch
soften
soundness
spirit
spiritedness
sprightliness
spryness
spunk
spunkiness
staff
stamina
starch
stave
strength
sturdiness
subvert
sucker
switch
target
tire
tool
toughness
truncheon
turkey
undermine
unman
verdure
verve
vibrance
vibrancy
victim
vigor
vigorousness
vim
vinegar
virility
vitality
vitiate
vivaciousness
vivacity
waddy
walking stick
wash out
waste
weaken
weal
wear down
wear out
welfare
well-being
wellness
whangee
wholeness
wholesomeness
wreck
yo-yo
zeal
zing
zip

Antonyms for sap

aid
ailment
assist
brain
build
cheat
cheater
condition
confidence man
construct
cozener
create
debilitation
debility
decrepitude
defrauder
delicacy
disablement
disease
disorder
dodger
energize
enervation
enfeeblement
exhaustion
faintness
feebleness
fill
fortify
frailness
frailty
harden
help
hoaxer
illness
impotence
impotency
inanition
increase
indolence
infirmity
invigorate
lameness
laziness
lethargy
listlessness
malady
powerlessness
prostration
puniness
put in
recruit
rejuvenate
repair
season
shark
sharper
sickliness
sickness
slicker
slightness
sluggishness
softness
strengthen
swindler
tenderness
torpidity
toughen
trickster
trouble
unhealthiness
unsoundness
vitalize
weakness

Meanings of sap

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.
4. Vitality.
5. A naive person; a simpleton.
6. A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
7. 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
1. To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
2. To exhaust the vitality of.
3. To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
4. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
5. To pierce with saps.
6. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
7. To gradually weaken.
8. 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 297 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to sap, such as: activeness, agility, aid, ailment, animal spirits, animation, ardor.

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