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View definitions for sapping

sapping

adjective as in draining

adjective as in exhausting

adjective as in fatiguing

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Example Sentences

Characterizing their identities as "waste" and "fraud" works like Kennedy's disparagement of disabled people: It dehumanizes anyone fascists view as sapping the "strength" of American society.

From Salon

Global warming changed the behavior of the jet stream, and a new pattern is now clear: sapping moisture from the West Coast and freezing the East.

In an eight-over spell in sapping heat, he averaged over 88mph, but more importantly used his height to generate venomous lift.

From BBC

England value his tirelessness and in the sapping heat he repaid the faith shown by his Durham team-mate Stokes.

From BBC

All this at the end of another sapping day in the heat, as England’s stint in the field stretched to six sessions and Salman Ali Agha became the third home batter to register a century.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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