saps

• batons
• blunt
• canes
• deplete
• destroy
• drain
• erode
• exhaust
• impair
• ruin
• softens
• suckers
• undermine
• vitiate
• wastes
• weakens
• wreck

• aid
• assist
• build
• cheaters
• cheats
• confidence men
• construct
• create
• dodgers
• energizes
• fill
• fortifies
• help
• invigorates
• recruits
• repair
• sharks
• sharpers
• slickers
• strengthen
• strengthens
• swindlers
• tricksters

• 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.

• The long hours of work saps all of his energy by the end of the day.
• Excessive stress saps your ability to think clearly.
• The harsh conditions on the hike saps the strength of even the most prepared adventurers.
• The constant noise saps my patience and concentration.
• Her negativity saps the motivation of the entire team.

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