sapping
suomi-englanti sanakirjasapping englanniksi
(infl of)
The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
December 22, 1821, (w), ''Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston''
- 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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