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sappings

sappings is the plural of sapping.

Meaning of sapping

Noun

sapping (plural sappings)

  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.1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain

Questions about sappings

What is sappings the plural of?
Sappings is the plural of sapping.

Words near sappings in the dictionary

  1. sappies
  2. sappiest
  3. sappily
  4. sappiness
  5. sapping
  6. sappings
  7. Sappington
  8. Sappingtons
  9. sapple
  10. sapples
  11. sappodilla

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