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Is sap a Scrabble word?

Yes, sap is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 5 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of sap?

Definition

noun (English)

1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.uncountable

2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.uncountable

3. (figurative) Vitality.countablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton.Examples: "Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken."; ""Or trying to reproduce it." "The Mafia wouldn't do that." "Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would." Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro."; "She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars"Synonyms: milksop, sapheadcountableslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (a tree, etc.).transitive

2. (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the vitality of.Examples: "Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main."; "While Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them."; "Alcaraz flew out of the blocks in the first-to-10 match tie-break of the deciding set, sapping every last bit of Sinner's energy before sealing victory with a remarkable running forehand winner that fizzed down the line."figurativelytransitive

noun (English)

1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.Examples: "I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps."UScountableslang

verb (English)

1. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).Examples: "[A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly — they drag him out of sight."; "And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings."slangtransitive

noun (English)

1. (military) 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 (English)

1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.Examples: "Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods."transitive

2. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.transitive

3. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.Examples: "Ring out the grief that saps the mind[…]"transitive

4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.Examples: "to sap one’s conscience"; "he saps my energy"transitive

5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.intransitive

6. (transitive, US, slang) To strike with a sap (a blackjack)USslangtransitive

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "sap"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "sap"?

Scrabble
5 points
S1
A1
P3
Words With Friends
6 points
S1
A1
P4

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