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present participle and gerund of sap examples
plural sappings
The act by which something is sapped or depleted. quotations examples
[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. examples
The act of being struck with a sap or club. quotations examples
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