Quick question! Hello there. I have just come across a word 'SAP' which I had not known the definition. I just looked up a dictionary and it says that 'To make someone or something weaker', verb. And

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Emma

Quick question! Hello there. I have just come across a word 'SAP' which I had not known the definition. I just looked up a dictionary and it says that 'To make someone or something weaker', verb. And I had thought, ' I got it'. However, there were some other meanings as well on it. ' An energy' noun. It feels like the meanings above are totally opposite for me. Any help will be greatly appreciated. (Of course grammar correction as well!)

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Quick question!

Hello there.
I have just come across a the word 'SAP' which I had not known the definition.
I just looked it up in a dictionary and it says that 'To make someone or something weaker', verb.
And I (had) thought, ' I got it'.
However, there were some other meanings as well on it.
' An energy' noun.
[It feels like] The meanings above are seem to me to be totally opposite [for me].

Any help will be greatly appreciated. (Of course grammar correction as well!)

We talk about something which 'saps our strength', or 'saps our will' to do something.

Perfect explanation. Thanks, Philip.

That's right Emma. Not formally. However as sap is: the liquid in a plant or tree that carries food to all its parts... Someone might use sap figuratively to mean energy. It would be very poetic language. It would be very uncommon usage.

Thank you so much for your help! According to your comment, SAP does not really have a meaning of Energy or energetic or something like this?????

That film I saw yesterday was so sad. I feel as though it has sapped my will to live. The tree has been sapped of its rubber (they took its rubber away.) The sap (oily substance here) from that tree can poison. His lungs were sapped by tuberculosis=they were eviscerated by TB.

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