saps is a form of:
Sap
noun
- 1.
- (Fulice that circulates through the tissues of trees and plants and keeps them alive; vigor; energy, a stupid person) maple sap រុក្ខរស
- 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ថាមពលចុះខ្សោយ
- 3.
- (SLANG) មនុស្សភ្លឹភ្លើ, មនុស្សឆ្កួត
Example: He's a sap.
verb — past tense: sapped ; past participle: sapped ; present participle: sapping ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (of something) (to drain of sap, to exhaust [strength, etc.], gradually) ធ្វើអោយអស់
ENGLISH MEANING
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.
- A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop.
- 4.
- 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 — past tense: sapped ; past participle: sapped ; present participle: sapping ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To pierce with saps.
- 3.
- (TRANSITIVE) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- 4.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.