sap

Object

• morale: The cathedral must be saved, he said damage to the fabric would sap the morale of the country.
• insect: Red spider mites are sap sucking insects that can reduce the vigor of plants.
• will: There are many things that can support or sap the will of programmers considering the unified model of service delivery.
• foundation: Many influences had, however, for some time been silently sapping the foundations of the old system.
• strength: These can easily sap the strength of a poem.
• confidence: Who can doubt that the scandal of loans for peerages and the NHS crisis have sapped public confidence in Labor?

Converse of object

• rise: Incorrect pruning during late March, April and May can induce ' bleeding ' where the rising sap weeps from the tree.
• contain: If leaves contain acidic sap, the anthocyanins will appear red and if the sap is less acidic, they will go purple.

Adjective modifier

• milky: The active agents in all of these are either contained within the milky sap or the juice of crushed seeds.
• sugary: Seen under the microscope these stipules have small droplet of what I assume to be sugary sap in the hollow underneath.
• poor: The poor, naïve sap thought he would actually pick up a pencil.

Modifying Another Word

• really: Time of year In the wetter months, the off-road sections can get extremely claggy which can really sap your energy.
• much: The film paves a little too much sap with sobbing tragic love.
• also: Bird droppings and tree sap also damage your cars paintwork and need removing on a regular basis, if not as soon as possible.

Noun used with modifier

tree: Is it mostly dry but with wet slippy bits under the trees where the tree sap has fallen?

Present participle complement

rise: And as the grinding gears of the plot push us ever further into a corner, we can feel the sap rising around us.

Preposition: of

• tree: Many people are allergic to the sap of pine trees.
• plant: Insufficient supply causes the sap of the plant to be less concentrated.

Preposition: from

• plant: Aphids Small insects that feed by sucking the sap from plants.
• leave: The bast is a thin layer formed of tiny channels which carry sugar sap downward from the leaves into the roots.