sapping
verb
- 1
To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- 2
To exhaust the vitality of.
verb
- 1
To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
verb
- 1
To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- 2
To pierce with saps.
- 3
To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- 4
To gradually weaken.
“he saps my energy”
- 5
To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
noun
- 1
The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
- 2
The act of excavating trenches.
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