Synonyms of the word

sap

• n. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating…
• n. (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
• n. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
• n. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
• v. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
• n. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of…
• v. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
• v. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
• v. (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
• v. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

blackjack

• n. (card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without…
• n. (card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.
• n. The flag (i.e., a jack) traditionally flown by pirate ships; popularly thought to be a white skull and…
• n. A small, flat, blunt, usually leather-covered weapon loaded with heavy material such as lead or ball bearings,…
• n. Any of several species of weed of genus Bidens, such as Bidens pilosa, in the family Compositae.
• n. A blackjack oak.
• v. To strike with a blackjack or similar weapon.

bludgeon

• n. A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end.
• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club.
• v. (transitive) To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon.

cave

• n. A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground, or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
• n. A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
• n. A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
• n. A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
• n. (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
• n. (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
• n. (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes…
• n. (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
• n. (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
• n. (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular…
• n. (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
• v. To surrender.
• v. To collapse.
• v. To hollow out or undermine.
• v. To engage in the recreational exploration of caves; to spelunk.
• v. (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been…
• v. (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
• v. (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
• interj. (Britain, school slang) look out!; beware!

consume

• v. (transitive) To use up.
• v. (transitive) To use (without using up).
• v. (transitive) To eat.
• v. (transitive) To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy completely.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To waste away slowly.

cosh

• n. A weapon made of leather-covered metal similar to a blackjack.
• n. A blunt instrument such as a bludgeon or truncheon.
• v. (transitive) To strike with a weapon of this kind.
• symb. (trigonometry) The symbol of the hyperbolic function hyperbolic cosine.

deplete

• v. To empty or unload, as the vessels of the human system, by bloodletting or by medicine.
• v. To reduce by destroying or consuming the vital powers of; to exhaust, as a country of its strength or…

eat

• v. To ingest; to be ingested.
• v. To use up.
• v. (transitive, informal) To cause (someone) to worry.
• v. (transitive, business) To take the loss in a transaction.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To corrode or erode.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on someone.
• n. (colloquial) Something to be eaten; a meal; a food item.

exhaust

• v. (transitive) To draw or let out wholly; to drain off completely.
• v. (transitive) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To drain; to use up or expend wholly, or until the supply comes to an end.
• v. (transitive) to tire out; to wear out; to cause to be without any energy.
• v. (transitive) To bring out or develop completely.
• v. (transitive) to discuss thoroughly or completely.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To subject to the action of various solvents in order to remove all soluble substances…
• n. A system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged; see…
• n. The steam let out of a cylinder after it has done its work there.
• n. The dirty air let out of a room through a register or pipe provided for the purpose.
• n. An exhaust pipe, especially on a motor vehicle.
• n. exhaust gas.
• adj. (obsolete) Exhausted; used up.

fool

• n. (pejorative) A person with poor judgment or little intelligence.
• n. (historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).
• n. (informal) Someone who derives pleasure from something specified.
• n. (slang) Buddy, dude, person.
• n. (cooking) A type of dessert made of puréed fruit and custard or cream.
• n. (often capitalized, Fool) A particular card in a tarot deck.
• v. To trick; to make a fool of someone.
• v. To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth.

muggins

• n. A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
• n. (cribbage) The act of stealing another player's points because they either mis-pegged or counted up incorrectly.
• n. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of…
• n. A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's…

saphead

• n. A simpleton, a stupid person.

simple

• adj. Uncomplicated; taken by itself, with nothing added.
• adj. Without ornamentation; plain.
• adj. Free from duplicity; guileless, innocent, straightforward.
• adj. Undistinguished in social condition; of no special rank.
• adj. (now rare) Trivial; insignificant.
• adj. (now colloquial) Feeble-minded; foolish.
• adj. (heading, technical) Structurally uncomplicated.
• adj. (obsolete) Mere; not other than; being only.
• n. (medicine) A preparation made from one plant, as opposed to something made from more than one plant.
• n. (obsolete) A term for a physician, derived from the medicinal term above.
• n. (logic) A simple or atomic proposition.
• n. (obsolete) Something not mixed or compounded.
• n. (weaving) A drawloom.
• n. (weaving) Part of the apparatus for raising the heddles of a drawloom.
• n. (Roman Catholicism) A feast which is not a double or a semidouble.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To gather simples, i.e., medicinal herbs.

simpleton

• n. (pejorative) A simple person lacking common sense.

solution

• n. A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
• n. An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
• n. The answer to a problem.
• n. (marketing buzzword) A product, service or suite thereof.
• n. (law, Britain, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.

tire

• v. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
• v. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
• v. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
• v. (transitive) To bore.
• n. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
• n. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
• n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
• n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
• n. (Canada, US) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
• n. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
• v. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
• n. A tier, row, or rank.

tomfool

• adj. silly or stupid.
• n. a silly or stupid person.

undermine

• v. To dig underneath (something), to make a passage or for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
• v. (figuratively) To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.