The difference between Chump and Sap

When used as nouns, chump means an incompetent person, a blockhead, whereas sap means the juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

Sap is also verb with the meaning: to drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

check bellow for the other definitions of Chump and Sap

  1. Chump as a noun (colloquial, pejorative):

    An incompetent person, a blockhead; a loser.

    Examples:

    "That chump wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground."

  2. Chump as a noun:

    A gullible person; a sucker; someone easily taken advantage of; someone lacking common sense.

    Examples:

    "It shouldn't be hard to put one over on ''that'' chump."

  3. Chump as a noun:

    The thick end, especially of a piece of wood or of a joint of meat.

  1. Chump as a verb:

  1. Sap as a noun (uncountable):

    The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.

  2. Sap as a noun (uncountable):

    The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.

  3. Sap as a noun:

    Any juice.

  4. Sap as a noun (figurative):

    Vitality.

  5. Sap as a noun (slang, countable):

    a naive person; a simpleton

    Examples:

    "synonyms: milksop saphead"

  1. Sap as a verb (transitive):

    To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).

  2. Sap as a verb (transitive, figurative):

    To exhaust the vitality of.

  1. Sap as a noun (countable, US, slang):

    A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.

  1. Sap as a verb (transitive, slang):

    To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).

  1. Sap as a 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.

  1. Sap as a verb (transitive):

    To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.

  2. Sap as a verb (transitive, military):

    To pierce with saps.

  3. Sap as a verb (transitive):

    To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.

  4. Sap as a verb (transitive):

    To gradually weaken.

    Examples:

    "to sap one’s conscience"

  5. Sap as a verb (intransitive):

    To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.

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