| 单词 | sapless |
| 释义 | sapless (once / 28969 pages) adj WORD FAMILY sap: sapless, sapped, sapper, sapping, sappy, saps+/sapper: sappers/sappy: sappier, sappiest, sappily USAGE EXAMPLESHe appears a sapless, withered, wasted old creature. McCarthy, Justin, Modern Leaders: Being a Series of B...(2012) Uprooted and sapless trees lay in various directions, around which parasites wound in luxuriant beauty, and hid the whitened wood in wreaths of green. Anonymous, Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I...(2012) Thus trees also, if they are felled in full moon, are harder and more lasting for building, and especially if they are made sapless. Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Chu...(2011) 1adj destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer Syn juiceless lacking juice 2adj lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality her body looked sapless Syn debile, decrepit, feeble, infirm, rickety, weak, weakly frail physically weak |
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