Read full poem →A broken, an emptied boat,
Sea saps it, winds blow apart,
Sick and adrift and afloat,
Dictionary Entry
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
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Common Phrases
. sapssaps poorsaps plant
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Poetry examples for “saps”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →She drained me like a fevered moon
That saps the spinning world.
The days went by like shadows,
Read full poem →Warren had had one or two slight warnings that a life of pleasure
saps the strongest constitution.[1] She lived now mainly at her
farm, the Villa Beau-sejour, and only occasionally occupied her
Read full poem →The place was rotten with dead; green clumsy legs
High-booted, sprawled and grovelled along the saps
And trunks, face downward in the sucking mud,