slovo | definícia |
sapless (encz) | sapless,bez mízy Zdeněk Brož |
Sapless (gcide) | Sapless \Sap"less\, a.
1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
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2. Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat
sapless womanhood." --Lowell.
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Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
--Dryden.
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sapless (wn) | sapless
adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a
feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn:
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 |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
Sapless (gcide) | Sapless \Sap"less\, a.
1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
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2. Fig.: Dry; old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat
sapless womanhood." --Lowell.
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Now sapless on the verge of death he stands.
--Dryden.
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