"sapping" meaning in English

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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 of being struck with a sap or club."
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