Noun
The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
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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.
The act of excavating trenches.
The act of striking with a sap or club.
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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.