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Dupe vs Sap - What's the difference?

dupe | sap |

Sap is a synonym of dupe.



In transitive terms the difference between dupe and sap

is that dupe is to duplicate while sap is to gradually weaken.

As verbs the difference between dupe and sap

is that dupe is to swindle, deceive, or trick while sap is to strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

As nouns the difference between dupe and sap

is that dupe is a person who has been deceived while sap is the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

As an initialism SAP is

initialism of Scientific Advisory Panel|lang=en.

dupe

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Verb

(dup)
  • To swindle, deceive, or trick.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has been deceived.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Related terms
    * dupery

    Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of duplicate

    Verb

    (dup)
  • To duplicate.
    • Can you dupe this photo for me?

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
  • (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
  • (informal) A duplicate.
    • Synonyms
    Related terms

    sap

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) sap, from (etyl) ), from *''sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

    Noun

    (wikipedia sap)
  • (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  • (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  • (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from sap) * crude sap * elaborated sap * sap ball * sap green * saphead * sapling * sap poison * sap rot * sapsucker * sap tube

    Etymology 2

    Probably from sapling.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
    • (rfimage)

    Verb

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

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.
    • Derived terms
    * sap fagot * sap roller * sapper

    Verb

    (sapp)
  • To subvert by digging or 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.
  • (military) To pierce with saps.
  • To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  • * 1850 ,
    • Ring out the grief that saps the mind
  • To gradually weaken.
  • * to sap one’s conscience
  • To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
  • * (rfdate)
    • Both assaults carried on by sapping .

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