sapping

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noun

The act by which something is sapped or depleted.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of sap
nounsapping (plural sappings)

plural sappings

  1. 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.

  2. The act of excavating trenches.
  3. 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
Cite this entry
APA

sapping. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sapping

MLA

“sapping.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sapping. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sapping,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sapping.

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