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sapping

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of sap

noun 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.

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@misc{sapping_2026,
  title = {sapping},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sapping},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}