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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
sapping en · NOUN
Meanings
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The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
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.
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The act of excavating trenches.
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The act of striking with a sap or club.
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.
1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain:
Forms
sapping en · VERB
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of sap