Sap

Tamil Dictionary definitions for Sap

Sap : தவர இனப்பால்

Sap definition

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.

Transitive verb.

  1. To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
  2. To pierce with saps.
  3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

Intransitive verb. To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.