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sapping

/sap/US // sæp //UK // (sæp) //

榨取,挖掘,榨汁,攻丝

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the juice or vital circulating fluid of a plant, especially of a woody plant.
    • : any vital body fluid.
    • : energy; vitality.
    • : sapwood.
    • : Slang. a fool; dupe.
    • : Metallurgy. soft metal at the core of a bar of blister steel.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sapped, sap·ping.

    • : to drain the sap from.

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Examples

  • How tree sap flowsThroughout the Northern Hemisphere, you’ll see trees with running sap between January and early March each year.

  • All you really need is something to channel the sap to drip into your container.

  • February is the best month of sap production for most tree species.

  • If I may say so, you need to get past this issue that is sapping your energy and demoralizing your followers.

  • That was a long, hot summer and fall, a confidence-sapping time to work on the campaign.

  • Accusations of dishonor demonize and demoralize, making it difficult to compromise, and sapping the motivation to act nobly.

  • The hope-sapping loneliness and soul-straitening isolation of what poverty feels like.

  • The president suffered a 12-point swing to Romney, sapping his 9-point advantage.

  • Five hundred ladders and a quantity of sapping tools had been collected within easy reach of Kilmallock.

  • How stem this tide of insidious poison that is sapping the strength of body and mind?

  • But her line both of attack and defence was of the sapping-and-mining order.

  • An evil press, largely circulated and read by many who suspect no evil, is rapidly sapping the faith of the multitudes.

  • Orders were thus issued for as much ground as possible to be gained in High Wood by sapping forward.