Definition of "sapped" [sapped]

• Simple past tense and past participle of sap. (verb)

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• "But I think all the years of camping in Girl Guides, with my parents, and then with some super granola boyfriends have kind of sapped me of my camping spirit."
• "I’d studied the report, memorized its key phrases, enjoying the way the legalistic terms sapped the color from what had happened."
• "I was his elder by half a year, and "sapped" very hard, while he laboured little; so that it will be plain at a glance, although he never acknowledged it, that he was the better endowed of the two with natural ability."