Sapping is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SAPPING in dictionary:

VERB:
• drain someone of (strength or power)
• dig a sap or saps
• make insecure by removing the foundations of
• undercut by water or glacial action
• hit with a bludgeon or club
• gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power)
NOUN:
• the act of undermining
• the fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts.
• vigour or energy
• a bludgeon or club.
• a foolish and gullible person
• act of sapping
• a tunnel or trench to conceal an assailant's approach to a fortified place.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to deplete or weaken gradually
• the removal of the foundation of a building so as to weaken it

Words related to SAPPING

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How to use SAPPING in a sentence

• He needed some one to look after him, care for him, watch him, save him from the hundred little worrying things that were sapping his energy.
• The attributing of an impossible individuality to the Universal Mind is one of the two grand errors which we find sapping the foundations of religion and philosophy in all ages.
• Zola as a mere evil of the hour, whereas it has been growing and spreading for half a century, gradually sapping all the vitality of France.
• Ah! how truly had Boutan spoken in saying that people ought to wait to see the real results of those victorious operations which were sapping the vitality of France.
• I was sapping the life energy from countless helpless creatures.
• The disease which is sapping the foundations of our liberty is not eradicated because its workings are forced inward.
• Over 4,000 miles in diameter, it was everywhere foreboding, sapping the spirit out of whoever looked upon it.
• We men are snug and comfortable enough, but it is very evil to lie here and know that the weather is steadily sapping the strength of the beasts on which so much depends.
• They help on that sapping and undermining of the ancient, sturdy simplicity, the solid oak of country character, replacing it with veneer.
• The States which from various considerations are always active in this direction are sapping the roots of their own strength.
• These parties are composed of light troops who charge the guards and compel the workmen to abandon their sapping tools and stand upon the defence.
• It may justly be said of the French approaches, that they admirably carried into practice their system of sapping.
• This specie by unhappy management was early sent abroad to pay for supplies, sapping the foundations of a sound currency system.
• All these things are sapping the manhood and dignity of the will.
• The enemy, finding that their guns had little effect on the sod-work of the fort, began a series of approaches by sapping and mining.
• Bates was in a very feeble state, bowed with asthma, and exhausted by a cough that seemed to be sapping his life.
• Engineers are engaged in sapping from Issy in the direction of Vaugirard.
• Sieges were not now carried on by the tedious method of sapping.
• Military reverses brought to a head the forces that were sapping its foundations.
• March had gone out like an idiotic lamb, and April came in in sapping rain and enervating mist.
• But not to the point of sapping the resolution which he had formed at the Council Table, and to which, once formed, he clung with the obstinacy of an obstinate man.
• Our troubles did not begin with want of money in the treasury, or under the sapping and mining operation of the compromise act.
• But while the great general was engaged in France, Maurice went on mining and sapping his way into Netherland fortresses.
• At last Rauparaha, reaching the stockade by skilful sapping, piled up brushwood against it, albeit many of his men were shot in the process.
• Yet so long and laborious were his approaches by sapping, so abundant his precautions, that in no case did the natives stay to be caught in their defences.
• For five months General Pratt, in the face of much grumbling, went slowly on sapping and building redoubts.
• While these causes were sapping the imperial power, Henry was unexpectedly menaced from another quarter.
• Materialism had crept into its colleges, sapping away their spiritual life and driving young men either into Atheism or into the Roman Catholic Communion.

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