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dupe | sapped |

As a noun dupe

is .

As a verb sapped is

(sap).

dupe

English

Etymology 1

(etyl)

Verb

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

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

    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

    sapped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sap)

  • 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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