"sapping" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: sappings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} sapping (plural sappings)
  1. The act by which something is sapped or depleted.
    Sense id: en-sapping-en-noun-9KcnBTJn
  2. The act of excavating trenches.
    Sense id: en-sapping-en-noun-PfamddVT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 37 48 6 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 32 50 7 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 58 5 6
  3. The act of striking with a sap or club.
    Sense id: en-sapping-en-noun-Xgb3plT7

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} sapping
  1. present participle and gerund of sap Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: sap
    Sense id: en-sapping-en-verb-ixp~8Ldf

Inflected forms

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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston\n[The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption."
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act of excavating trenches."
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          "ref": "1964, Raymond Chandler, Killer in the Rain:",
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    "English nouns",
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        {
          "text": "December 22, 1821, Joseph Story, Address Delivered Before the Members of the New-England Society, in Charleston\n[The government] may be destroyed by popular violence, or the madness of party, or the deeper sappings of corruption."
        }
      ],
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        "The act by which something is sapped or depleted."
      ]
    },
    {
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      ]
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