exhaust vs sap

exhaust

verb
  • To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely (:liquid) 

  • To empty by drawing or letting out the contents 

  • To bring out or develop completely 

  • To discuss thoroughly or completely 

  • To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances or extractives 

  • to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy 

  • To use up; to deplete, drain or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end 

noun
  • An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle. 

  • A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see also exhaust system. 

  • The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there. 

  • The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose. 

  • exhaust gas. 

sap

verb
  • To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). 

  • 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 make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken. 

  • To gradually weaken. 

  • To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). 

  • To exhaust the vitality of. 

  • To pierce with saps. 

noun
  • 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. 

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