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initialism 
  1. Scientific Advisory Panel
  2. statutory, Statutory adoption, Adoption pay, Pay - payments made by an employer to an employee who is absent from work after the adoption of a child.
  3. (South Africa) South African Police.
  4. (South Africa, obsolete) South Africa Party.
  5. Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung, one of the worlds largest software companies.
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noun 
  1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. (context, slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
  4. (countable) A leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
verb (sap, p, ing)
  1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wear away, wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
    • (rfdate) Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods. " w:John Dryden, John Dryden
      1. (context, transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
      2. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
    • (rfdate) Ring out the grief that saps the mind. " w:Alfred Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson
      1. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
    • to one"s conscience
      1. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps " (rfdate, provide real quote)W. P. Craighill
    • (rfdate) Both assaults carried on by sapping. " The Tatler
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