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SAPLESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sapless mean?
• SAPLESS (adjective)
The adjective SAPLESS has 2 senses:
1. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
2. destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
Familiarity information: SAPLESS used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Synonyms:
debile; decrepit; feeble; infirm; rickety; sapless; weak; weakly
Context example:
her body looked sapless
Similar:
frail (physically weak)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
Context example:
the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks
Similar:
juiceless (lacking juice)
Context examples
He is either a foreigner or has lived long in the tropics, for he is yellow and sapless, but tough as whipcord.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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