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)
  • Depleting,
  • debilitating.
  •murderous (adjective)
  • murderous,
  • sanguinary,
  • sanguineous,
  • slaughterous.

• v.

  •attenuate (verb)
  • sap.
  •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.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Milking.
  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •Other relevant words:
  • depletion,
  • exhaustion,
  • destruction,
  • tracing,
  • grueling,
  • marking,
  • humoring,
  • strain,
  • outgo,
  • mugging,
  • Denting,
  • Blooding,
  • depravity,
  • expenditure,
  • corruption,
  • Palling,
  • Fagging,
  • scanning,
  • mining,
  • putrescence,
  • outflow,
  • trying,
  • Jading,
  • Raking,
  • disbursement,
  • boring,
  • Evacuating,
  • Suckering,
  • overthrow,
  • Attenuating,
  • Duping,
  • withdrawal,
  • Fooling,
  • coshing,
  • reduction,
  • revolution,
  • gruelling,
  • degeneracy,
  • consuming,
  • Gouging,
  • Excavating,
  • pithing,
  • Cudgelling,
  • skimming,
  • clowning,
  • juicing,
  • blasting,
  • goofing,
  • drag,
  • devouring,
  • rottenness,
  • Gulling,
  • drain,
  • tiring.

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.