She kept hurtful weeds from growing beneath her trees and sapping the earth-food required by her charges.
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Sapping
Synonyms for "sapping" (26 found)
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9 entriesaction verbdescriptive adjectiveenergy lossgeological processgeomorphological processmilitary engineeringqualitative adjectiveresource losstransitive verb
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15 entriesattention-depletingcognitive-fatiguingdepletionenergy-depletingexhaustionfatiguefatiguingfunding erosiongroundwater erosionmorale erosionresource depletionsap trenchsapping tunnelundercuttingweariness
Collocations
17 entriesenergymilitary sappingmoralerate of sappingresiliencesapping attacksapping attentionsapping energysapping heatsapping moralesapping operationsapping performancesapping resourcessapping trenchstaminastrength
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There have been many reports about the 'brain drain' sapping the intellectual strength of developing countries by drawing the best and the brightest to higher paying jobs abroad.
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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.
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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.
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