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Meaning of Sapping | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
  2. The act of excavating trenches.
  3. The act of striking with a sap or club.

Equivalents

العربية الإستنزاف
Ελληνικά αποδυνάμωση

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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