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" (7 found)
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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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