Definition for Sapping:

• The art of approaching a fortress, when within range of fire, by excavating trenches in such a manner as to protect the men from fire.

Synonyms for Sapping:

• adj.

  •draining (adjective)
  • debilitating,
  • wearying,
  • tiresome.
  •sanguinary (adjective)
  • bloodthirsty,
  • cutthroat,
  • bloody.
  •sanguineous (adjective)
  • sanguinary.
  •taxing (adjective)
  • difficult,
  • exigent,
  • demanding,
  • heavy,
  • grievous,
  • exacting,
  • punishing,
  • wearisome,
  • tedious,
  • disturbing,
  • troublesome,
  • trying,
  • tough,
  • weighty,
  • tiring,
  • wearing,
  • onerous,
  • oppressive.

• v.

  •attenuate (verb)
  • constrict,
  • abate,
  • dissipate,
  • extenuate,
  • thin,
  • deflate,
  • sap,
  • shrink,
  • lessen,
  • mitigate,
  • contract.
  •disabling (verb)
  • crippling,
  • Dulling,
  • Handicapping,
  • stupefying,
  • anesthetizing,
  • disarming,
  • disabling,
  • stunning,
  • Hobbling,
  • hindering,
  • Hamstringing,
  • Neutralizing,
  • Prostrating,
  • Impairing,
  • Cramping,
  • invalidating,
  • Abrogating,
  • weakening,
  • deadening,
  • Benumbing,
  • Laming,
  • Vitiating,
  • Paralyzing,
  • Botching,
  • Hampering,
  • Scotching,
  • screwing up,
  • enfeebling,
  • incapacitating,
  • tampering.
  •enervating (verb)
  • emptying,
  • enervating,
  • tapping,
  • Dissipating.
  •sap (verb)
  • debilitate,
  • attenuate,
  • exhaust,
  • enervate,
  • subvert,
  • impair,
  • wear down,
  • bleed,
  • cripple,
  • disable,
  • drain,
  • erode,
  • ruin,
  • vitiate,
  • blunt,
  • deplete,
  • undermine,
  • destroy,
  • wreck,
  • devitalize,
  • enfeeble,
  • rob,
  • prostrate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Milking.

Paraphrases for Sapping:

• Independent

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    undermining, eroding.

Antonyms for Sapping:

• adj.

  • murderous
    easy, pleasant, facile.
  • taxing
    untroubling.

• v.

  • attenuate
    intensify, expand.
  • sap
    build, help, strengthen, put in, increase.

Sapping Sentence Examples:

• Hope could not bring herself to speak of Barney to Minnie Caldecott, and her cheeks grew pink even as she spoke, for she knew that she was using the boy's disappearance as a cloak behind which to hide the real trouble which was sapping her strength.

• The Poor Laws were gradually sapping the vitals of the country; and, whatever miseries I suffered, I had no post to whisk my complaints for a single penny to the remotest corners of the empire; and yet, in spite of all these privations, I lived on quietly, and am now ashamed that I was not more discontented, and utterly surprised that all these changes and inventions did not occur two centuries ago.