sapless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
    weakly; weak; feeble; decrepit; infirm; rickety; debile.
    • a feeble old woman
    • her body looked sapless
  2. adjective satellite destitute of sap and other vital juices; dry
    • the rats and roaches scurrying along the sapless planks"- Norman Mailer

WordNet

Sap"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Destitute of sap; not juicy.
  2. Fig.: Dry, old; husky; withered; spiritless. "A somewhat sapless womanhood." Lowell.
    Now sapless on the verge of death he stands. Dryden.

Webster 1913