sapping
English
editVerb
editsapping
- present participle and gerund of sap
Noun
editsapping (plural sappings)
- 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.
- December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston
- The act of excavating trenches.
- The act of being struck with a sap or club.
- 1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain:
- 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.