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1. Deplete
   "sap one's savings";
   - run down, exhaust, play out, tire
    
2. Excavate the earth beneath

1. A watery solution of sugars, salts, and minerals that circulates through the vascular system of a plant
    
2. A person who lacks good judgment
   - fool, muggins [Brit], tomfool, meathead, jughead [N. Amer], drongo [Austral, NZ], donkey, moegoe [S.Africa], nit [Brit], galah [Austral], boofhead [Austral], charlie [Brit], mampara [S.Africa], juggins [Brit]
    
3. A piece of metal covered by leather with a flexible handle; used for hitting people
   - blackjack, cosh

Derived forms: sapped, sapping, saps

Type of: bludgeon, cave, consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, simple, simpleton, solution, undermine, use up, wipe out

Encyclopedia: Sap