sapping

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of sap form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

sappings plural
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