Definition of "sapping" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of sap

noun

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.