To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
To affirm; to make firm and strong.
To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
To gradually weaken.
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
To exhaust the vitality of.
To pierce with saps.
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
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.
The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
Vitality.
A naive person; a simpleton
Any juice.
A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.