[{"word":"saps","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Any juice.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Vitality.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A naive person; a simpleton","synonyms":["milksop","saphead"],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["milksop","saphead"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To exhaust the vitality of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"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.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To pierce with saps.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To gradually weaken.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"he saps my energy"},{"definition":"To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sap","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saps"]}]