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English Dictionary: sapless by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sapless
adj
  1. lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"
    Synonym(s): decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly
  2. destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry; "the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sapless \Sap"less\, a.
      1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
  
      2. Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. [bd]A
            somewhat sapless womanhood.[b8] --Lowell.
  
                     Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
                                                                              --Dryden.
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