Sapping
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sapping is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of sap.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of sap.
More Meanings
- The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
- The act of excavating trenches.
- The act of striking with a sap or club.
Example Sentences
And when he had me up there he would sap me again and I wouldn't remember anything that happened in between the two sappings.
December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston [The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption.
Word Forms
- sappings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include undermining, bleeding, depletion, depleter, depletive, depletant.
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