Sapping

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

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.”

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